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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... presents the first comprehensive statement of a " Wittgensteinian " criticism discussions include Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness , William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury , the poetology of Friedrich Hölderlin and selected works of ...
... present a collection of essays from philosophers and literary theorists who develop Wittgensteinian accounts of literature , who use Wittgenstein's philosophical results to solve problems pertinent to the theory of literature , or show ...
... presents a literary approach to Wittgenstein's life in The World as I Found It , New York : Ticknor & Fields , 1987 ; Derek Jarman and Terry Eagleton have made the film Wittgenstein ; M. A. Numminem has set the Tractatus to music in his ...
... present activity to which I felt I had something to contribute . My encounter with it ( which was at first fruitless - it took the intervention of the work of my teacher J. L. Austin , and a certain dissatisfaction with that ...
... present , as the self is . The philosophy I seek is not one that promises an always premature unity but one that allows me in prin- ciple to get from anywhere , any present desire , to anywhere else that I find matters to me . I have ...
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 |