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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... true source of most philosophical problems , we can solve these problems , like a therapist who cures his patients by showing them the source of their illness.4 Moreover , the importance of language for Wittgenstein is reflected not ...
... true only if there exists exactly one thing to which the name or description refers . Writing about Hamlet he states that " the propositions in the play are false because there was no such man . " 9 The problems of this position seem ...
... true not of this , but of another possible world ; and others that they refer not to ordinary , physical objects , but rather to a special kind of object , typically Meinongian objects , which do not exist , but subsist and , thus , can ...
... true , as Wittgenstein early and late has been taken to assert , that the problems of philosophy arise from a misunderstanding of our language . What could be a more intimate study of human self - defeat - humanity distinguished , for ...
... true of any text to the degree that one takes it seriously . Second , because any text to whose understanding the Investigations ( for example ) contributes is one to whose interpretation it in some measure submits . But what confers ...
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 |