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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Reading: Wittgenstein: Writing
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Creativity and the Moral Life
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About this book
Reviews
'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
'A bold, exhilarating, and rewarding collection of essays that uses Wittgenstein's reflections on language to gain new, original insights into poetry, painting, architecture, philosophy, and language itself.'
- Hans Sluga, William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, US
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, US.
John Hyman, University of Oxford, UK.
Wolfgang Kienzler, University of Jena, Germany.
Jakub Mácha, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Stephen Mulhall, University of Oxford, UK.
Alois Pichler, University of Bergen, Norway.
Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, UK.
Ben Ware, University of London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language
Editors: Sebastian Sunday Grève, Jakub Mácha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472540
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-58073-6Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47254-0Published: 26 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 314
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Linguistics, general, Stylistics, Poetry and Poetics