Introduction: The Varieties of Ordinary Language Criticism, by Kenneth Dauber and Walter Jost
1.Wittgenstein's Philosophizing and Literary Theorizing, by Austin E. Quigley
2.Stanley Cavell's Redemptive Reading: A Philosophical Labor in Progress, by Edward Duffy
3.The Window: Knowledge of Other Minds in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, by Martha C. Nussbaum
4. Ordinary Language Brought to Grief: "Home Burial," by Walter Jost
5.Reading, Writing, Re-Membering: What Cavell and Heidegger Call Thinking, by Stephen Mulhall
6.The Grammar of Telling: The Example of Don Quixote, by A. J. Cascardi
7.The Shadow of a Magnitude: Quotation as Canonicity in Proust and Beckett, by William Flesch
8.The Self, Reflected: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the Autobiographical Situation, by Garry L. Hagberg
9.Cavell's Imperfect Perfectionism, by Charles Altieri
10.The Poetics of Description: Wittgenstein on the Aesthetic, by Marjorie Perloff
11.In Which Henry James Strikes Bedrock, by Ralph M. Berry
12."The Accomplishment of Inhabitation": Danto, Cavell, and the Argument of American Poetry, by Gerald L. Bruns
13.Cavell and Hölderlin on Human Immigrancy, by Richard Eldridge
14.Moonstruck, or How to Ruin Everything, by William Day
15.Beginning at the Beginning in Genesis, by Kenneth Dauber
Afterword, by Stanley Cavell