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Applying Wittgenstein Laura Cook

Applying Wittgenstein By Laura Cook

Applying Wittgenstein by Laura Cook


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Summary

A development in Wittgenstein Studies has been the advancement of a therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. This book offers an 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 of literature, psychopathology, and time.

Applying Wittgenstein Summary

Applying Wittgenstein by Laura Cook

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.

Applying Wittgenstein Reviews

Review by Duncan Richter, The AUthors Journal Compliation. January 2009.

About Laura Cook

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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NPB9780826494504
9780826494504
0826494501
Applying Wittgenstein by Laura Cook
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2007-11-29
208
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