Wittgenstein's Private Language
Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations, §§ 243-315
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 26 October 2006
- ISBN 9780199208548
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 210x140x16 mm
- Weight 285 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
...genuinely thought-provoking...Mulhall subverts ingrained readings of the text, challenging the reader to re-examine features of Wittgenstein's work she may have, unwisely taken for granted.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Wittgenstein's Aesthetics of Austerity
Wittgenstein's Monologuists (section 243)
A Child is Crying (sections 244-5)
Wittgenstein's Cloud: Of Unknowing (section 246)
Privacy, Patience and Pictures: First Methodological Interlude (sections 248, 251-2)
Cavell's Corsican Brothers (section 253)
Wittgenstein's Semi-Colon: Second Methodological Interlude (sect 255)
Wittgenstein's Diarist: Three Readings (section 258)
Excursus: Cavell's Mezuzah
Wittgenstein's Gift (Of Grammatical Imagination): Pots and Dolls, Stones and Flies (sections 268-9)
The Human Manometer (section 270)
Coda: Wittgenstein's Beetle (section 293)
