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Applying Wittgenstein /

In the light of a radical reassessment of Wittgenstein's work currently taking place in contemporary Wittgenstein scholarship, 'Applying Wittgeinstein' offers a dynamic reading of Wittgenstein's later works.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Read, Rupert J., 1966-
Otros Autores: Cook, Laura L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007.
Colección:Continuum studies in British philosophy.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language
  • Towards a working through of 'meaning as use'
  • Presumption versus assumption
  • Distinguishing 'meaningful consequences' from 'grammatical effects'
  • Towards a dynamic, applied conception of meaning
  • What does 'signify' signify?
  • Literature
  • 'Wittgensteinian' poetry
  • Wallace Stevens as 'Wittgensteinian'
  • The many meanings of 'seeing' : a literary 'reminder'
  • Invitations to nonsense : poetry considered as a therapeutic tool
  • Wittgenstein as Stevensian?
  • 'Modernist' performative literature : philosophy, poetry, prose
  • 'Wittgensteinian' prose
  • The 'strong grammar' of Faulkner's The sound and the fury
  • Delusions of 'sense' in the 'representation' of derangement : the dangers of interpretation
  • 'Creative mimicry' and the untranslatable metaphor
  • Wittgenstein and the 'sound of sense'
  • Time
  • Dummett challenged : beyond 'realist' and 'anti-realist' renderings of time
  • Introduction
  • Using nonsense to combat nonsense : different conceptions
  • How to discuss matters with a realist
  • Realism versus anti-realism?
  • An intermediate conclusion
  • Methodological reflections
  • A better picture of time ( -statements)
  • On still wanting to ask, "what is time?"
  • Conclusions : what is it to apply Wittgenstein to time? : or : what is a grammatical investigation?
  • (Dis)solving the 'time-slice' conception of time
  • Introduction
  • How not to represent space-time
  • Are we limited beings?
  • Continuity
  • Real time-slice talk
  • Metaphysicians' time-slice talk
  • Dummett on time-slices
  • Against time-slice talk?
  • In closing.