1st Edition

The Literary Wittgenstein

Edited By John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer Copyright 2004
368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature. Amid growing recognition that Wittgenstein's philosophy has important implications for literary studies, this book brings together twenty-one articles by the most prominent figures in the field. Eighteen of the... Read more
Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgments  Introduction  Part 1. Philosophy as a Kind of Literature/Literature as a Kind of Philosophy  Part 2. Reading with Wittgenstein  Part 3. Literature and the Boundaries of Self and Sense Part  4. Fiction and the Tractatus  Part 5. The Larger View

Biography

John Gibson is Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University, US.

Wolfgang Huemer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and the author of The Constitution of Consciousness (Kluwer, forthcoming).

'...splendidly perceptive...' Terry Eagleton, TLS