David LaRocca

David LaRocca, who studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard, is the author or contributing editor of twenty books, including Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etude, Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind (with Sandra Laugier), Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind, The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema, Inheriting Stanley Cavell, and Acknowledging Stanley Cavell (Conversations journal no. 7). Author of Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, he served as Harvard University’s Sinclair Kennedy Fellow in the United Kingdom and was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. A participant in Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School, he is the author most recently of Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker. www.DavidLaRocca.org