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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Ludwig Wittgenstein"”.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
Tine Melzer: Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language The purpose of this study is to show transitions between verbal and visual meaning in ordinary language, based on philosophical concepts and conceptual artworks. It offers models for artistic research and collaboration in arts …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hermann Broch: The Need for Fiction and Logic in Moral Philosophy
Many philosophers consider Ludwig Wittgenstein to be the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. His works have been read primarily by experts in philosophy, but one exception is the novelist and contemporary of Wittgenstein's, Hermann Broch. Broch believed that by limiting philosophy …
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The concept of a non-rational foundation of meaning with reference to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Notebooks 1914-1916 record Ludwig Wittgenstein's preliminary writings in preparation for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and offer an excellent insight into the so-called 'early period' of his thought. The writing carefully documents the extraordinary way in which the philosopher …
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Towards a ‘‘living connection with the past’’ : Ludwig Wittgenstein and the representation of history in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
… utilises certain aspects of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to explore W.G. Sebald's representation of history in his novel Austerlitz (2001). Wittgenstein is explicitly mentioned in the text of the novel; this dissertation argues that his philosophy can help us to understand Sebald's …
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Alcoholics Polyphonous: Wittgenstein's Linguistic Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
… relationship with the linguistic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Starting from a summary of the later Wittgenstein's famous Private Language Argument, I analyze the way Wallace adapts the idea of the Private Language User (PLU) as an archetype for his novel's characters. The third chapter …
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A Language-Game Justification for Narrative in Historical Explanation
… to the notion of language games as used by Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as the narrative and paradigm models of Arthur Danto and Thomas Kuhn for explaining historical events.
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… The works of Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger will play a central role in the articulation of this critical narrative.
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Looking at the Curious Game of Translation: Exploring the Worlds of Alice, Wittgenstein and the Translator
… Here, consideration is given to the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Lewis Carroll, in the belief that they offer mutually complementary guides to the world of language, a world that is organic, idiosyncratic and changing, a world that can neither be reduced to formulae nor controlled. By …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Legacy to Cognitive Psychology: Concepts as Participatory
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) is regarded as one of the most influential and eminent philosophers of the twentieth century. In both his early and later work, he is a key figure in the development of analytical philosophy: he wants us to see that natural language use is pivotal to understanding …
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Understanding Dead Languages
… which no new linguistic uses can be generated. Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the meaning of language is simply its use by a language community. On this view a dead language is coextensive with the existing corpus, with the linguistic dynamic provided by the community of readers. Donald …
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
… especially those in the work of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and then considers the way the self is portrayed in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and in my own An Anarchy of Man. Chapter Three examines postmodern conceptions of the self and considers how these conceptions are …
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The roles of language in selected novels of Thomas Berger.
… especially on the philosophical views of Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V. Quine.
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Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art
… via its materiality through the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Maritain to the post-modern considerations of David Hickey and Arthur Danto. The research for this thesis focuses on how contemporary art, in all its various forms, functions via …
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Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art
… via its materiality through the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Maritain to the post-modern considerations of David Hickey and Arthur Danto. The research for this thesis focuses on how contemporary art, in all its various forms, functions via …
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Translation after Wittgenstein
… examine how a reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein can be of use to the reflective practitioner of literary translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key figure in twentieth-century philosophy, remains peripheral to the field of translation studies and I argue that his later work, …
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Das thema 'sprache' in den werken Bachmanns, Handkes und Wieners
… to the work of Karl Kraus, Fritz Mauthner and Ludwig Wittgenstein whose theories had a profound influence on all three authors. Each of the three writers chosen for this study is then considered separately. Attention is given to the background of each writer and to the influence of contemporary …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… of the self to what Stanley Cavell, following Ludwig Wittgenstein, calls skepticism: the desire, both natural and unnatural, to deny and transcend the human and its conditions of sense-making. It asks whether these skeptical visions of the human self can be lived and answers by putting each …
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Wittgenstein and Austin on ‘What is in Common’: A Neglected Perspective?
… is a neglected aspect in the writings of later Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. I badge this the ‘unity problem’. Many interpreters tend to underestimate, or ignore, this important aspect, and to focus instead on what I will call the ‘compatibility problem’. The compatibility problem …
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