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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... understanding language requires us to focus on how it is used by members of the linguistic community , appreciating all the nuances and varieties of expression that characterize everyday communication . His analyses of " clear and ...
... understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy . Before presenting the contributions to this volume in more detail , however , I want to offer a few considerations of how Wittgenstein's philosophy can be relevant for our theoretical ...
... understanding of literature . In this picture , literary language is no longer viewed as an aberrant border case , in which language does not work quite the way it does in ordinary discourse . It rather allows us to take literature ...
... understanding . If one looks at the actual effects that novels and the theories of moral philosophers had on people , Rorty argues , " you find yourself wishing that there had been more novels and fewer theories . " Rorty sees poetry in ...
... understanding of one aspect of Wittgenstein's philosophy : his move from the referential to a communitarian picture of language . They show , as I hope , that Wittgenstein's philosophy can prove extremely relevant for questions ...