A soteriology of reading: Cavell’s excerpts from memory

«My aim here has been to reveal or flesh out how cavell’s signature claim from The Politics of lnterpretation - the claim that reading has the structure of transference - is framed, on one side, by a picture of reading as redemption and, on the other, by Cavell’s summary assertion that “what I am producing here . . . might be thought of as a theology of reading.”»

William Day

A soteriology of reading: Cavell’s excerpts from memory in Stanley Cavell: Philosophy, literature and criticism, edited by James Loxley and Andrew Taylor (Manchester University Press, 201 1), 76-91.