The Literary WittgensteinJohn Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer Psychology Press, 2004 - 356 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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... ideas and in general to convey philo- sophical information . The harmony of style and content in both books that ... idea of an intel- lectual , and Bertrand Russell every shopkeeper's image of the sage .... But Wittgenstein is the ...
... idea that the meaning of a literary text , far from being internal to literary works , is actually generated by readers or interpretative communities in the act of reading . Sonia Sedivy and Martin Stone develop an argument that ...
... idea that Wittgenstein has anything like a " method " that might be of use to the theorist looking for a way to approach literature . He does so by looking at the work of two philosophers who have pioneered " Wittgensteinian ...
... ideas varied over the years , and that he finally understood that his views can be best expressed in the form of philosophical remarks : " my thoughts were soon crippled if I tried to force them on in any single direction against their ...
... idea of the ordinary or everyday , especially its way of allowing philosophy's return to what it calls the everyday to show that what we accept as the order of the ordinary is a scene of obscurity , self - imposed as well as other ...
Contents
The Investigations everyday aesthetics of itself | 21 |
But isnt the same at least the same? Wittgenstein and the question of poetic translatability | 34 |
Wittgensteins imperfect garden the ladders and labyrinths of philosophy as Dichtung | 55 |
Restlessness and the achievement of peace writing and method in Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations | 75 |
Imagined worlds and the real one Plato Wittgenstein and mimesis | 92 |
Reading for life | 109 |
Reading with Wittgenstein | 125 |
Introduction to Having a rough story about what moral philosophy is | 127 |
Literature and the boundaries of self and sense | 209 |
Rotating the axis of our investigation Wittgensteins investigations and Holderlins poetology | 211 |
Autobiographical consciousness Wittgenstein private experience and the inner picture | 228 |
Monologic and dialogic Wittgenstein Heart of Darkness and linguistic skepticism | 251 |
Wittgenstein and Faulkners Benjy reflections on and of derangement | 267 |
Fiction and the Tractatus | 289 |
Facts and fiction reflections on the Tractatus | 291 |
Wittgensteins Tractatus and the logic of fiction | 305 |
Having a rough story about what moral philosophy is | 133 |
The life of the sign Wittgenstein on reading a poem | 146 |
Wittgenstein against interpretation the meaning of a text does not stop short of its facts | 165 |
On the old saw every reading of a text is an interpretation some remarks | 186 |