Title & Author:

Wittgenstein, theory, and the arts / edited by Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Description:

x, 302 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wittgenstein's later philosophy : a prophylaxis against theory / Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey -- Wittgenstein and the autonomy of humanistic understanding / P.M.S. Hacker -- Wittgenstein on language, art and humanity / Oswald Hanfling -- Wittgenstein, performing art and action / Graham McFee -- Is scepticism a 'natural possibility' of language? Reasons to be sceptical of Cavell's Wittgenstein / Malcolm Turvey -- The urn and the chamber pot / John Hyman -- Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams / Ben R. Tilghman -- Cognitive film theory / Richard Allen -- The coded-message model of literature / Severin Schroeder -- Wittgenstein on consciousness and language : a challenge to Derridean literary theory / Charles Altieri -- Wittgenstein, Freud and the nature of psychoanalytic explanation / Louis A. Sass.

Summary:

Introductory papers outline the basic tenets of Wittgenstein's later philosophy and how it can be used to clarify the forms of explanation that are logically appropriate to the subject matter of humanistic disciplines. 'Theory, ' they conclude, is not one of these. More specialized case studies employ Wittgenstein's philosophical methods to diagnose conceptual confusions at the heart of well-known theoretical paradigms currently employed in the study of the arts, such as psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, structuralism, and deconstruction. The volume also includes essays that address Wittgenstein's own remarks on art and aesthetics, the relationship of his philosophy to artistic modernism, and the interpretation of Wittgenstein best known to contemporary scholars of the arts, that of Stanley Cavell.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415228751
9780415228756
9780415408257
0415408253

Subject:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
Art Philosophy.
Philosophie
Literatur
Sprachphilosophie
Kunst
Esthetica.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Allen, Richard, 1959-
Turvey, Malcolm, 1969-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222039
Call No.: NA44.W831.9 W5 2001
Status: Available