
Applying Wittgenstein
Rupert Read(Author)
Laura Cook(Editor)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 29. November 2007
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8264-9450-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Review by Duncan Richter, The AUthors Journal Compliation. January 2009.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9450-4 (9780826494504)
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Applying Wittgenstein
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Applying Wittgenstein
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Persons
Laura Cook is a research student and Associate Tutor in Philosophy at the 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.
Content
Foreword, by the editor; 'On applying Wittgenstein'; Introduction by the author; Part One: Meaning; 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; Part Two: The effects of 'grammar'; '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?; '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; 3.3 Metaphysical questions concerning time, considered as problems of mood; 3.4 Towards our everyday mastery of time; Conclusion; 4.1 The hidden greatness of the philosophical canon; 4.2 Further prospects for Applying Wittgenstein.