Overview
- Provides readers with an up-to-date and contemporary analysis of Wittgenstein's philosophy
- Explores numerous facets of the nature and character of aesthetic experience
- Brings together authoritative work from leading Wittgenstein scholars
Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Aesthetic Dimension of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Work
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Narrative, Interpretation, and Literary Language
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Experiencing Art and Perceiving Persons: An Intimate Connection
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA, and has also been Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include: Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge; Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory; and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness. He is editor of Art and Ethical Criticism and of Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature, co-editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. He is presently writing a new book on the contribution literary experience makes to the formation of self and sensibility, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding
Editors: Garry L. Hagberg
Series Title: Philosophers in Depth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40910-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40909-2Published: 17 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82215-0Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40910-8Published: 22 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-552X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 394
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Aesthetics, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Arts