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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... notions of truth and reference . Both aspects of this referential picture of language , however , are not particularly apt to approach literature ; unlike scientific ones , literary texts do not seem to deliver veridical descriptions of ...
... 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 bracketed . According to this view , writers only pretend to use ...
... notion of " perspicuous representation " must also be applied to the style of the Investigations itself . Marjorie Perloff points out in her contribution that although Wittgenstein famously stated that " philosophy ought really to be ...
... notion of the self and inner life from his early writings , where he advocates a solipsistic position strongly influenced by Schopenhauer , to his later texts , where , in a therapeutic tone , he warns against misleading analogies and ...
... notion of intensionality : " Literary texts thrive precisely on exploiting the semantic differences of expressions with the same informational content , revealing the vacuity of the notion of intensional equivalence ( synonymy ) . They ...
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 |