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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... picture " 228 GARRY L. HAGBERG 13 Monologic and dialogic : Wittgenstein , Heart of Darkness , and linguistic skepticism 251 JAMES GUETTI 14 Wittgenstein and Faulkner's Benjy : reflections on and of derangement RUPERT READ 267 PART IV ...
... 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 , the Tractatus , Wittgenstein focused on the question of how ...
... picture in order to recall Wittgenstein's background and illustrate a few notable respects in which his philosophy can enrich our understanding of literature . Wittgenstein's background : the referential picture of language Wittgenstein ...
... picture of language . Various philosophers have presented more subtle accounts which , like Russell's , are based on the concepts of truth and reference . Literature , it was argued , does not communicate truths , but is rather a game ...
... picture to reduce all legitimate uses of language to assertive statements , or , more generally , to bearers of truth - value , but recognizes that language can be used in many different ways to pursue a variety of different goals . The ...
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 |