Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Cavell: Between the Continentals and the Analytics -- Cavell on Skepticism and Gender? -- The Cavellian Feminine, Kristeva, and the Need for a New Religious Imagination -- From Language to Gender to Religion -- 2 Cavell on Language: What is it in Language that Makes the Skeptical Worry Possible? -- What do Wittgenstein's Criteria Reveal about Language? -- From Criteria to Projection -- 3 Cavell on Possessing Language: What Makes the Skeptical Worry Unavoidable? -- The Skeptic's Humanity -- Speaking: Privacy and Public -- Emersonian Authorship as the Office of All Language Users -- 4 Beyond the Singing Body? Gender and Skepticism -- A Community of Mutual Conversation -- The Unknown Woman -- Gender and Skepticism -- The Gender of Skepticism -- 5 Beyond the Philosopher's Fear: Nostalgia for Mothers and Other Origins -- Neighboring the Beyond -- Kristeva's Voice -- A Theological History of Skepticism -- A New Religious Imagination for the Morning After or a New Science of the Human -- Bibliography -- Index.