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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... 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 the world , but ...
... reference . Literature , it was argued , does not communicate truths , but is rather a game of make- believe ; it consists of speech - acts similar to the ones we use in ordinary discourse , with some of the conventions that govern ...
... 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 emphasis on the relation between words and world ...
... reference - Wittgenstein's ladder metaphor ( TLP 6.54 ) , translated into medieval German ( “ Er muoz gelîchesame die leiter abewerfen , sô er an ir ufgestigen " ) , in The Name of the Rose , trans . by William Weaver , New York ...
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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 |