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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... 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 Virginia Woolf and Rainer ...
... statements and to focus exclusively on analyzing their logical form with the goal of creating an " ideal language . " Wittgenstein's crucial move was to point out that understanding language requires us to focus on how it is used by ...
... statements are enumerated in a hierarchical system - and the apho- ristic , yet concise style shows what Wittgenstein tries to express : " what can be said at all can be said clearly , and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in ...
... statements containing definite descriptions or proper names are 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 ...
... statements , described the world , raised questions , gave orders , etc. , as we do in ordinary language . Literature , however , misses the worldly engagement characteristic of our everyday use of language : descriptions in literary ...