David Larocca

David LaRocca studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard. He is the author or contributing editor of more than a dozen books, including a suite of volumes in film-philosophy: The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (2011), The Philosophy of War Films (2014), The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth (2017). More recently he edited The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century...See more

David LaRocca studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard. He is the author or contributing editor of more than a dozen books, including a suite of volumes in film-philosophy: The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (2011), The Philosophy of War Films (2014), The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth (2017). More recently he edited The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed (2020), Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (2020), and Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (2021). Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale superieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), and Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020). She is a columnist at the French Journal Liberation, and is the translator of Stanley Cavell's work in French. See less