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Book SynopsisAnat Matar is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is the author of
From Dummett's Philosophical Perspective (1997) and
Modernism and the Language of Philosophy (2006), and co-editor (with Anat Biletzki) of
The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes (1998) and (with Abeer Baker) of
Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel (2011).
Trade ReviewThis original, high-caliber collection explores the grammar of twentieth century 'modernism' from James to Schoenberg to Greenberg, using Wittgenstein as a lens. The themes are timely and deep: radical self-criticism as method; inevitable tensions facing phenomenological attentiveness to form in logic, psychology, and the 'ordinary'; philosophy’s relation to literature, poetry, theatre and music; mysticism, pessimism, and certainty. * Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, USA *
Analytic purists, with whom he has been associated, will be sceptical about drawing connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy – and 20th century philosophy in general – and the artistic modernism of his time. From diverse perspectives informed both by philosophy and the arts, contributors to this volume refute that scepticism. They elucidate the tantalising relationships that arise from Wittgenstein's radical self-criticism, his concern with language and the arts, and the intensified development of the Enlightenment project that modernism represents. * Andy Hamilton, Professor of Philosophy, Durham University, UK *
Table of ContentsList of Contributors Abbreviations Series Preface
Introduction: Giving the Viewer an Idea of the Landscape
Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Part I – Conceptualizing Wittgenstein 1. Language, Expressibility and the Mystical
John Skorupski (University of St. Andrews, UK) 2. Modernism and Philosophical Language: Phenomenology, Wittgenstein and the Everyday
Oskari Kuusela (University of East-Anglia, UK) 3. Wittgenstein and 'Ordinary Language Philosophy'
Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Javier Kalhat (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 4. Wittgenstein's Modernist Political Philosophy
Thomas Wallgren (University of Helsinki, Finland) 5. Too Cavellian a Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein’s Certainty, Cavell’s Scepticism
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le Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Part II – Wittgenstein and Aesthetics 6. Wittgenstein, Musil and the Austrian Modernism
Pierre Fasula (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) 7. 'We should be Seeing Life Itself': Back to the Rough Ground of the Stage
Élise Marrou (Paris Sorbonne University, France) 8. A Confluence of Modernisms: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigation and Henry James’s Literary Language
Garry L. Hagberg (Bard College, USA) 9. Modernism with Spirit: Wittgenstein and the Sense of the Whole
Antonia Soulez (University Paris-8 St. Denis, France) 10. Wittgenstein and the Art of Defamiliarization
David Schalkwyk (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Part III – Glossary Logic
Sebastian Sunday Grève (Queen’s College, University of Oxford, UK) Picture
Stefan Brandt (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Gremany) Grammar
Phil Hutchinson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) and Rupert Read (University of East Anglia, UK) Use
Harvey Cormier (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) Psychological Concepts
Yuval Lurie (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Ethics
Ben Ware (University of London and Kingston University, UK) Art
David Macarthur (University of Sydney, Australia) Index
