Applying Wittgenstein

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9450-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Continuum Studies in British Philosophy

new and dynamic addition to the series, encompassing all Wittgenstein’s later works.

A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein’s work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein’s remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our conception of philosophy has for the ways in which we talk about meaning. He goes on to engage with literary texts as Wittgensteinian, where 'Wittgensteinian' does not mean expressive of a Wittgenstein philosophy, but involves the literature in question remaining enigmatic, and doing philosophical work of its own. He considers Faulkner’s work as productive too of a broadly Wittgensteinian philosophy of psychopathology. Read then turns to philosophical accounts of time, finding a link between the division of time into discrete moments and solipsism of the present moment as depicted in philosophy on the one hand and psychopathological states on the other.

This important book positions itself at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in Wittgenstein studies and philosophy in general and offers a new and dynamic way of using Wittgenstein's works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Read, Rupert

Cook, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by the editor
‘On applying Wittgenstein’; Introduction by the author
Part One: Language
1.1 Working through ‘meaning as use’
1.2 Presumption versus assumption
1.3 Distinguishing ‘meaningful consequences’ from ‘grammatical effects’
1.4 Towards a dynamic, applied conception of meaning
1.5 What does 'signify' signify?
Part Two: Literature
‘Wittgensteinian’ Poetry
2.1 Wallace Stevens as ‘Wittgensteinian’
2.2 The many meanings of ‘seeing’: a literary ‘reminder’
2.3 Invitations to nonsense: poetry considered as a therapeutic tool
2.4 Wittgenstein as Stevensian?
2.5 'Modernist performative literature: philosophy, poetry, prose
‘Wittgensteinian’ Prose
2.5 The ‘Strong grammar’ of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
2.6 Delusions of ‘sense’ in the representation of derangement: The ‘dangers’ of interpretation
2.7 ‘Creative mimicry’ and the untranslatable metaphor
2.8 Wittgenstein and the ‘sound of sense’
Part Three: Time
3.1 Dummett challenged: Beyond ‘Realist’ and ‘Anti-Realist’ renderings of time
3.2 (Dis)solving the ‘time-slice’ conception of time
Conclusion
Philosophical problems are at root problems of mood
Afterword
Further prospects for applying Wittgenstein

Über Autor(innen)

Rupert Read is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is editor of The New Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2000), The New Hume Debate (Routledge, 2000) and Kuhn (Polity, 2002). He has published articles in a number of philosophical journals and mainstream newspapers. He is also a Green Party City Councillor in Norwich.
Laura Cook is a research student and Associate Tutor in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.