The Literary Wittgenstein by Gibson, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Wittgenstein, Language and Philosophy of Literature

Wittgenstein’S Background: The Referential Picture of Language A Wittgensteinian Picture of Literary Language The Contributions to This Book Notes

Part I: Philosophy As a Kind of Literature/Literature As a Kind of Philosophy

Some Thing Black Notes

Dichten Ladders Gardens and Labyrinths Heimat/Heimlich Fiction Hamlet What Cannot Be Said Notes

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5. Imagined Worlds and the Real One: Plato, Wittgenstein, and Mimesis

I II III IV V Notes

6. Reading for Life

Literature Without Life Reality Without Representation Notes

Part II: Reading With Wittgenstein

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7. Having a Rough Story About What Moral Philosophy Is

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8. “The Life of the Sign”: Wittgenstein On Reading a Poem

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I II III IV Notes

10. On the Old Saw, “Every Reading Of a Text Is an Interpretation”: Some Remarks

Fish and Wittgenstein Critical Pluralism and the Exemplarity of Literature Must Plain Cases Be “Read” Too? The Illusion of Possibility Literary Interest Notes

Part III: Literature and the Boundaries of Self and Sense

I II III IV V VI Notes

I II III Notes

13. Monologic and Dialogic: Wittgenstein, Heart of Darkness, and Linguistic Skepticism

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14. Wittgenstein and Faulkner’s Benjy: Reflections On and of Derangement

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Part IV: Fiction and the Tractatus

15. Facts and Fiction: Reflections On the Tractatus

Introduction Alternative Views On the Ontology of Fiction Wittgenstein’s Kantianism Ersatz Entities Building Block Ontology Complete Analysis and Full Clarification Searching for Cognitive Value Notes

16. Wittgenstein’S tractatus and the Logic of Fiction

An Analysis of Meaning From True Science to False Science to Fiction Criteria for a Logic of Fiction Wittgenstein’s Logic and the Semantics of Fiction Character, Personality, and Propositional Attitude In Fiction and Folk Psychology Notes

Part V: The Larger View

I II III IV V Notes