Stanley Cavell 
Pitch of Philosophy [PDF ebook] 
Autobiographical Exercises

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.