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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... language , with remarkable results . Wittgenstein developed a picture of language that radically broke with the tradition and revolutionized the way philosophers approached the topic in the twentieth century . While in his first book ...
... language manifest , by showing that " grammatical illusions " ( PI §110 ) are the true source of most philosophical problems , we can solve these problems , like a therapist who cures his patients by showing them the source of their ...
John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer. the role which language plays in literary contexts . Although Wittgenstein empha- sizes that to understand language we need to take the diversity of linguistic phenomena into account , he hardly discusses ...
... language cannot be adequately accounted for on the basis of the notions of truth and reference . As a consequence , it is often viewed as a border case , an aberrant use of language , in which the general rules of linguistic usage are ...
... language is characterized by a move from reference to use ; " the meaning of a word , " he famously states , " is its use in the language " ( PI §43 ) . By approaching language as a social practice , Wittgenstein does not put an ...
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 |