Download or read book A Pitch of Philosophy written by Stanley CAVELL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it--in all its topographical ambiguity. Cavell talks about his vocation in connection with what he calls voice--the tone of philosophy--and his right to take that tone, and to describe an anecdotal journey toward the discovery of his own voice.