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Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language
Edited By Sebastian Sunday Grève and Jakub Mácha
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Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language is an exceptionally stimulating collection on a crucial new
subject, the creative potential of ordinary language (artistic, scientific, philosophical). Grève and Mácha
bring together a powerful group of authors whose various approaches to the topic strike a perfect
balance between interpretative scholarship and philosophical originality.' - Sandra Laugier, Professor
of Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
'These essays explore both the standing possibility of creative language use and Wittgenstein's own
creative uses of language. In doing so they advance and enrich our understandings of distinctively
human and discursive being-in-the-world as both emergent within practices and capable of exceeding
them. They will captivate anyone with a sense of the uncanniness of the ordinary and the vicissitudes
of the human.' - Richard Eldridge, Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy,
Swarthmore College, US
'This book successfully challenges our received image of Wittgenstein as a closed philosopher—closed
language-games, a closed end-of-philosophy conception, closed possibilities of meaning and knowing.
Using Wittgenstein's own philosophical practice as a springboard, the authors show him to have been
an open philosopher. Their exploration of the theme of creativity—artistic, linguistic, mathematical
and philosophical—offers us new perspectives on skepticism, artistic and philosophical style, method,
modernism and idealism.' - Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, US
About the book
This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein
scholarship since its very beginnings. Today, readers continue to be struck by the creative style of this
genius of 20th-century philosophy. At the same time, his writings provided the ground for several
subsequent philosophical movements, such as logical positivism and so-called ordinary language
philosophy, which have often been regarded as being inherently scientistic or conservative, or even in
some sense anti-creative. The chapters of this volume set out to re-examine Wittgenstein's lasting
intellectual influence in this respect. To this end, they present recent work on Wittgenstein's
fundamental insights into the workings of human linguistic behaviour, its creative extensions and its
philosophical capabilities, as well as Wittgenstein's own creative use of language—thus insightfully
connecting issues from a variety of topics such as painting, politics, literature, poetry, literary theory,
mathematics, philosophy of language, aesthetics and philosophical methodology.
CONTENTS
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Good, the Bad and the Creative: Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy; Sebastian Sunday
Grève and Jakub Mácha
PART II: OVERTURE
2. Cats on the Table, New Blood for Old Dogs: What Distinguishes Reading Philosophers (on Poets)
from Reading Poets?; Stephen Mulhall
PART III: READING: WITTGENSTEIN: WRITING
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Us 'Typical Western Scientists'; Alois Pichler
4. Wittgenstein on Gödelian 'Incompleteness', Proofs and Mathematical Practice: Reading Remarks
on the Foundations of Mathematics, Part I, Appendix III, Carefully; Wolfgang Kienzler and Sebastian
Sunday Grève
5. Wittgenstein: No Linguistic Idealist; Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
PART IV: PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS
6. Wittgenstein, Verbal Creativity and the Expansion of Artistic Style; Garry L. Hagberg
7. Doubt and Display: A Foundation for a Wittgensteinian Approach to the Arts; Charles Altieri
8. The Urn and the Chamber Pot; John Hyman
PART V: CREATIVITY AND THE MORAL LIFE
9. Wittgenstein and Diamond on Meaning and Experience: From Groundlessness to Creativity; Maria
Balaska
10. Find It New: Aspect-Perception and Modernist Ethics; Ben Ware
11. Metaphysics Is Metaphorics: Philosophical and Ecological Reflections from Wittgenstein and
Lakoff on the Pros and Cons of Linguistic Creativity; Rupert Read
Sebastian Sunday Grève is currently
reading for a DPhil in Philosophy at
Queen's College, University of Oxford.
Jakub Mácha is an Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Masaryk University, Brno,
Czech Republic.
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