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Wittgenstein's private language : grammar, nonsense, and imagination in Philosophical investigations, sections 243-315
- Title
- Wittgenstein's private language : grammar, nonsense, and imagination in Philosophical investigations, sections 243-315 / Stephen Mulhall.
- Author
- Mulhall, Stephen, 1962-
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 148 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-145) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Wittgenstein's aesthetics of austerity -- Wittgenstein's monologuists (243) -- A child is crying (244-5) -- Wittgenstein's cloud: of unknowing (246) -- Privacy, patience and pictures: first methodological interlude (248, 251-2) -- Cavell's Corsican brothers (253) -- Wittgenstein's semi-colon: second methodological interlude (255) -- Wittgenstein's diarist: three readings (258) -- Excursus: Cavell's Mezuzah -- Wittgenstein's gift (of grammatical imagination): pots and dolls, stones and flies (268-9) -- The human manometer (270) -- Coda: Wittgenstein's beetle (293).
- ISBN
- 0199208549
- 9780199208548
- LCCN
- 2007295553
- 9780199208548
- OCLC
- ocm71541577
- 71541577
- SCSB-9511093
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library