Applying Wittgenstein.
Title:
Applying Wittgenstein.
Author:
Read, Rupert.
ISBN:
9781441123800
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Series:
Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Permissions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Quotations -- Foreword (Laura Cook) -- Introduction: On Applying Wittgenstein (Rupert Read) -- Part 1: Language -- 1.1 Towards a Working Through of '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 2: Literature -- 2.1 'Wittgensteinian' Poetry -- 2.1.1 Wallace Stevens as 'Wittgensteinian' -- 2.1.2 The Many Meanings of 'Seeing': A Literary 'Reminder' -- 2.1.3 Invitations to Nonsense: Poetry Considered as a Therapeutic Tool -- 2.1.4 Wittgenstein as Stevensian? -- 2.1.5 'Modernist' Performative Literature: Philosophy, Poetry, Prose -- 2.2 'Wittgensteinian' Prose -- 2.2.1 The 'Strong Grammar' of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury -- 2.2.2 Delusions of 'Sense' in the 'Representation' of Derangement: The Dangers of Interpretation -- 2.2.3 'Creative Mimicry' and the Untranslatable Metaphor -- 2.2.4 Wittgenstein and the 'Sound of Sense' -- Part 3: Time -- 3.1 Dummett Challenged: Beyond 'Realist' and 'Anti-Realist' Renderings of Time -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Using Nonsense to Combat Nonsense: Different conceptions -- 3.1.3 How to Discuss Matters with a Realist -- 3.1.4 Realism versus Anti-Realism? -- 3.1.5 An Intermediate Conclusion -- 3.1.6 Methodological Reflections -- 3.1.7 A Better Picture of Time (-Statements) -- 3.1.8 On ^Wanting to Ask, "What is Time?" -- 3.1.9 Conclusions: What is it to Apply Wittgenstein to Time? Or: What is a Grammatical Investigation? -- 3.2 (Dis)solving the 'Time-slice' Conception of Time -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 How Not to Represent Space-time -- 3.2.3 Are we Limited Beings? -- 3.2.4 Continuity -- 3.2.5 Real Time-slice Talk.
3.2.6 Metaphysicians' Time-slice Talk -- 3.2.7 Dummett on Time-slices -- 3.2.8 Against Time-slice Talk? -- 3.2.9 In Closing -- Conclusion: Philosophical Problems are at Root Problems of Mood (Rupert Read and Laura Cook) -- Afterword: Further Prospects for Applying Wittgenstein -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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