The Literary WittgensteinJohn Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer Routledge, 2004 M03 11 - 368 pages The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature. |
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... understanding language requires us to focus on how it is used by members of the linguistic community, appreciating all the nuances and varieties of expression that characterize everyday communication. His analyses of "clear and simple ...
... understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Before presenting the contributions to this volume in more detail, however, I want to offer a few considerations of how Wittgenstein's philosophy can be relevant for our theoretical understanding ...
... understanding of literature. In this picture, literary language is no longer viewed as an aberrant border case, in which language does not work quite the way it does in ordinary discourse. It rather allows us to take literature ...
... understanding. If one looks at the actual effects that novels and the theories of moral philosophers had on people, Rorty argues, "you find yourself wishing that there had been more novels and fewer theories." 1 3 Rorty sees poetry in ...
... understanding of a literary text, as Colin Lyas has shown. Following Wilmsatt and Beardsley's attack on the intentional fallacy – or, on the continental side, Barthes's and Foucault's point concerning the death of the author many ...