Wittgenstein's Private Language

Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations, §§ 243-315

Stephen Mulhall (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

158 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955674-8 (ISBN)

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Stephen Mulhall offers a new way of interpreting one of the most famous and contested texts in modern philosophy: remarks on 'private language' in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. He sheds new light on a central controversy concerning Wittgenstein's early work by showing its relevance to a proper understanding of the later work.

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed use of Stanley Cavell's interpretations of these remarks; and relates disputes about how to interpret this aspect of Wittgenstein's later philosophy to a recent, highly influential controversy about how to interpret Wittgenstein's early text, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by drawing and testing out a distinction between resolute and substantial understandings of the related notions of grammar, nonsense and the imagination. The book is concerned throughout to elucidate Wittgenstein's philosophical method, and to establish the importance of the form or style of his writing to the proper application of this method.

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford.

Introduction: Wittgenstein's Aesthetics of Austerity ; 1. Wittgenstein's Monologuists (section 243) ; 2. A Child is Crying (sections 244-5) ; 3. Wittgenstein's Cloud: Of Unknowing (section 246) ; 4. Privacy, Patience and Pictures: First Methodological Interlude (sections 248, 251-2) ; 5. Cavell's Corsican Brothers (section 253) ; 6. Wittgenstein's Semi-Colon: Second Methodological Interlude (sect 255) ; 7. Wittgenstein's Diarist: Three Readings (section 258) ; 8. Excursus: Cavell's Mezuzah ; 9. Wittgenstein's Gift (Of Grammatical Imagination): Pots and Dolls, Stones and Flies (sections 268-9) ; 10. The Human Manometer (section 270) ; Coda: Wittgenstein's Beetle (section 293)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2008
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 204 mm
Gewicht	194 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-955674-1 / 0199556741
ISBN-13	978-0-19-955674-8 / 9780199556748
Zustand	Neuware