The Aesthetic Commonplace : Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day

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The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Overlooked and Underfelt: Reading in Earnest
	Literature, Philosophy, and the Region of the Commonplace; or, at Home with Wittgenstein . . . in England
	Wittgenstein’s Marginality: An Excursus
	“I am aiming at something different”: Wittgenstein’s Dissent
	Staying Interested: Interpretation and Self-implication
1: The General, the Particular, and the Art of the Commonplace
	On Non-conceptualArt
	Family Photos
	Leaves, Trees and Water Towers
	Cheap Common Things, Old Women, Philosophers
	The Commonplace and the Memorable
2: A Novel Concerning Human Understanding: Middlemarch and the Philosophical Commonplace
	“The Future of Philosophy”?: Between Eliot and Wittgenstein
	Extraordinary Insight?
	“. . . of which the other knew nothing”: A Philosophical Commonplace
	Middlemarch Un-Locked
		“Remarkably like the portrait of Locke”
		“A picture held us captive”
		The right answers to the wrong questions
3: “When we feel the truth of a commonplace”: Form and Inflection in Eliot and Wittgenstein
	A Woman is Crying
	“Something about which nothing can be said”: Inwardness as Exclamation
	Middlemarch Unguided: Expecting a Response Without Formulating a Question
	What she knows when he says “my love”
	Excursus: On a “little speech of four words”
4: The Spirit of the Commonplace, or When does it make sense to use the word “soul”?
	Taking Note
	Poetry Incarnate
	Making Sense of Soul: “Of course I understand it!”
	“I would like to be deep . . . yet I shy away from the abyss in the human heart!”
	“Commonplace and even trite,” or “interesting and important”?
	“Upon my soul” and “in my heart”
Coda: On Literature, Philosophy, and Undisciplined Reading
	“. . . all that is great and important . . .”
	Eliot and the Art-workof Emotion
	“The River Between,” or, Where Cavell Stands
	Literary and Philosophical Concurrence
Bibliography
Index
Index of Passages Cited from Philosophical Investigations