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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... practice of reading literary texts ? And what is the relation between literature and moral philosophy ? An invaluable addition to Wittgenstein studies , this volume is indispensable for anybody interested in literary and philosophical ...
... Practice and the Foundations of Language ( Cambridge University Press , 2004 ) . Wolfgang Huemer teaches philosophy at the University of Erfurt . His research interests are - next to Wittgenstein and philosophy of literature – mainly in ...
... practice . He counteracted a longstanding tendency among philosophers to reduce language to assertive statements and to focus exclusively on analyzing their logical form with the goal of creating an " ideal language . ” Wittgenstein's ...
... practice , Wittgenstein does not put an emphasis on the relation between words and world ; but rather focuses on detailed investigations of how words are used in diverse contexts of human practice . Moreover , he refuses the tendency ...
... practice central to our language without which we might not even be able to master a language as complex as ours in the first place . Wittgenstein's later picture of language has further important consequences for literary theory : his ...
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 |