The Literary Wittgenstein

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Wittgenstein, language, philosophy of literature......Page 14
Philosophy as a kind of literature / Literature as a kind of philosophy......Page 28
Introductory note to ~The Investigations' everyday aesthetics of itself~......Page 30
The Investigations' everyday aesthetics of itself......Page 34
~But isn't the same at least the same?~: Wittgenstein and the question of poetic translatability......Page 47
Wittgenstein's ~imperfect garden~: the ladders and labyrinths of philosophy as Dichtung......Page 68
Restlessness and the achievement of peace: writing and method in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations......Page 88
Imagined worlds and the real one: Plato, Wittgenstein, and mimesis......Page 105
Reading for life......Page 122
Reading with Wittgenstein......Page 138
Introduction to ~Having a rough story about what moral philosophy is~......Page 140
Having a rough story about what moral philosophy is......Page 146
~The life of the sign~: Wittgenstein on reading a poem......Page 159
Wittgenstein against interpretation: ~the meaning of a text does not stop short of its facts~......Page 178
On the old saw, ~every reading of a text is an interpretation~: some remarks......Page 199
Literature and the boundaries of self and sense......Page 222
Rotating the axis of our investigation: Wittgenstein's investigations and HOlderlin's poetology......Page 224
Autobiographical consciousness: Wittgenstein, private experience, and the ~inner picture~......Page 241
Monologic and dialogic: Wittgenstein, Heart of Darkness, and linguistic skepticism......Page 264
Wittgenstein and Faulkner's Benjy: reflections on and of derangement......Page 280
Fiction and the Tractatus......Page 302
Facts and fiction: reflections on the Tractatus......Page 304
Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the logic of fiction......Page 318
The larger view......Page 332
Unlikely prospects for applying Wittgenstein's ~method~ to aesthetics and the philosophy of art......Page 334
Index......Page 360