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Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present) ReviewOne does not have to be a philosopher or an academic to enjoy this autobiography of this well-regarded philosopher. One might not even enjoy reading autobiographies generally, but this is more than an autobiography - it spliced deep philosophical thoughts into the narration of the author's life - to date. Written as a journal from 2 July 2003 to 1 September 2004, the author, born of Eastern European (Polish) immigrants to Atlanta, Cavell spoke humbly and arrestingly about his Jewish background. His mother's family were "Seagals". His father, originally Kavelieriskii, renamed his surname "Goldstein". Cavell changed his own name to Cavell at age 17 when he went to Berkeley where he eventually started his tenure as a professor before moving to Harvard.
He talked about his experiences as he was brought up, all of which he infused serious thoughts. For example, when he was admonished for not cleaning his plate when people are starving in India, he muses over the relevance and futility of the plight of starving people as well as the relevance and futility of his cleaning his plate. He talks about films that he watched with his family, and books he had read, and those he wrote - especially "Must We Mean What We Say?" and "The Claim to Reason". His most serious thoughts invariably turned to three men who appeared to have deeply influenced him - Wittgenstein, J L Austin, and his father. His accounts of his father were always touchiing and sweet. When asked by the immigration officer at Ellis Island what his birthday was, his father replied, "Today's my birthday." Though his father subsequently admitted that he made up this story, Cavell retold it to show the sense of humour and imagination his father employed in his fatherly influence over him. Cavell ended the book with a story about visiting his father, then aged 83, in hospital for a pacemaker to be inserted. His father asked why were the doctors and nurses running in and out of his room like there was an emergency. Cavell reminded him that they were going to place a pacemaker in him. His father replied, "What's the emergency? If a child is seriously ill, that's an emergency. When an eighty-three year old old man may die is not an emergency." I shall leave the rest of the exchange for the reader's private enjoyment. This is a book by a learned and humble man.Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present) Overview

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