Marshall Cohen

I came to Berkeley in August to see Barry and to say farewell. I believe it was a very moving occasion for both of us and I have communicated personal thoughts to his daughters. I was very glad that Barry got to see the essay I published about Stanley Cavell in the Los Angeles Review of Books in April. In it I expressed my opinion about Cavell’s remarks about Barry at an APA meeting in response to Barry’s invited remarks about Cavell’s views. Barry was deeply hurt by Cavell’s remarks and as Cavell memorialized the event in his memoirs I wanted to get my reaction in print mainly for Barry’s sake. I think I’ll leave that brief intervention as my memorial act. Needless to say I had a very great admiration for Barry as a philosopher. I treasured him as a friend and a deep and wide-ranging thinker.