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Podcast: The Point Podcast
Episode: Stanley Cavell's style (with Lola Seaton)
Description: On this episode of The Point podcast, Jon Baskin talks to a fellow long-suffering Cavellian: the writer and New Left Review editor Lola Seaton. Lola joins us to discuss her essay for issue 28 of The Point, âThe Sound Makes All the Difference,â on her relationship to Stanley Cavellâs unmistakable and infectiousâif sometimes infuriatingâwriting style.Timestamps:Literature as an act of communication. (5:46)Cavellâs reading of King Lear and its deep insight about parental bribery (7:40)How Cavell found his vocation in philosophy (13:11)âPhilosophy is a willingness to think undis...