The Literary WittgensteinJohn Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer 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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... meaning of a text does not stop short of its facts " 165 SONIA SEDIVY 10 On the old saw , " every reading of a text is an interpretation " : some remarks 186 MARTIN STONE PART III Literature and the boundaries of self and sense vi CONTENTS.
... Meaning , and Aesthetic Theory and Meaning and Interpretation : Wittgenstein , Henry James , and Literary Knowledge , as well as of numerous articles , essays , and reviews in aesthetics . He is presently at work on a book on ...
... meaning of a word , " he famously states , " is its use in the language " ( PI §43 ) . By approaching language as a social practice , Wittgenstein does not put an emphasis on the relation between words and world ; but rather focuses on ...
... meaning she attaches to this utterance , but rather listen to what she says . Meanings are not in the head , they are in the words anchored in social practice and physical environment . This approach can shed an interesting light upon ...
... meaning of single words in isolation , rather we need to ask for their role in the web of our linguistic practices all of which , in some way or another , are closely connected to or embedded in reality . Based on this view , Harrison ...