How to Do Things with Kavanah: J.L. Austin and the Communicative Activity of Performing Mitzvot
Hosted By: Valley Beit Midrash
Valley Beit Midrash presents a session exploring kavanah — usually translated as “intention” — in the performance of mitzvot, and particularly in Jewish prayer. The often-used but rarely explained term is illuminated through the speech act theory of Oxford philosopher and architect of the Normandy invasion J. L. Austin, articulated in his 1955 William James Lectures at Harvard and later published as “How to Do Things with Words.”
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