Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Good, the Bad and the Creative: Language in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy....Pages 3-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Cats on the Table, New Blood for Old Dogs: What Distinguishes Reading Philosophers (on Poets) from Reading Poets?....Pages 29-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Us ‘Typical Western Scientists’....Pages 55-75
Wittgenstein on Gödelian ‘Incompleteness’, Proofs and Mathematical Practice: Reading Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Part I, Appendix III, Carefully....Pages 76-116
Wittgenstein: No Linguistic Idealist....Pages 117-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Wittgenstein, Verbal Creativity and the Expansion of Artistic Style....Pages 141-176
Doubt and Display: A Foundation for a Wittgensteinian Approach to the Arts....Pages 177-197
The Urn and the Chamber Pot....Pages 198-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Wittgenstein and Diamond on Meaning and Experience: From Groundlessness to Creativity....Pages 219-237
Find It New: Aspect-Perception and Modernist Ethics....Pages 238-263
Metaphysics Is Metaphorics: Philosophical and Ecological Reflections from Wittgenstein and Lakoff on the Pros and Cons of Linguistic Creativity....Pages 264-297
Back Matter....Pages 298-314