The Literary WittgensteinJohn Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer Psychology Press, 2004 - 356 sider 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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... language , with remarkable results . Wittgenstein developed a 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 ...
... language manifest , by showing that " grammatical illusions " ( PI §110 ) are the 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 ...
John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer. the role which language plays in literary contexts . Although Wittgenstein empha- sizes that to understand language we need to take the diversity of linguistic phenomena into account , he hardly discusses ...
... language cannot be adequately accounted for on the basis of the notions of truth and reference . As a consequence , it is often viewed as a border case , an aberrant use of language , in which the general rules of linguistic usage are ...
... language is characterized by a move from 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 ...