Seeing Wittgenstein Anew

A 2010 collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing.

William Day (Edited by), Victor J. Krebs (Edited by)

9780521547321, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 15 March 2010

412 pages
22.6 x 15 x 2.8 cm, 0.5 kg

'… the articles open a new path of inquiry, one that could not have been opened without the connection to aspect-seeing … the book contains many more successful arguments for seeing Wittgenstein anew.' Journal of the History of Philosophy

Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding concept in his efforts to turn philosophy's attention to the actual conditions of our common life in language. The essays in this 2010 volume open up novel paths across familiar fields of thought: the objectivity of interpretation, the fixity of the past, the acquisition of language, and the nature of human consciousness. Significantly, they exemplify how continuing consideration of the interrelated phenomena of aspect-seeing might produce a fruitful way of doing philosophy in a new century.

Introduction: seeing aspects in Wittgenstein William Day and Victor J. Krebs
Part I. Aspects of 'Seeing-As': 1. Aesthetic analogies Norton Batkin
2. Aspects, sense, and perception Sandra Laugier
3. An allegory of affinities: on seeing a world of aspects in a universe of things Timothy Gould
4. The touch of words Stanley Cavell
Part II. Aspects and the Self
Section 1. Self-Knowledge: 5. In a new light: Wittgenstein, aspect-perception, and retrospective change in self-understanding Garry L. Hagberg
6. The bodily root: seeing aspects and inner experience Victor J. Krebs
Section 2. Problems of the Mind: 7. (Ef)facing the soul: Wittgenstein and materialism David R. Cerbone
8. Wittgenstein on aspect-seeing, the nature of discursive consciousness, and the experience of agency Richard Eldridge
Part III. Aspects and Language: 9. The philosophical significance of meaning-blindness Edward Minar
10. Wanting to say something: aspect-blindness and language William Day
Part IV. Aspects and Method
Section 1. Therapy: 11. On learning from Wittgenstein, or what does it take to see the grammar of seeing aspects? Avner Baz
12. The work of Wittgenstein's words: a reply to Baz Stephen Mulhall
13. On the difficulty of seeing aspects and the 'therapeutic' reading of Wittgenstein Steven G. Affeldt
Section 2. Seeing Connections: 14. Overviews: what are they of and what are they for? Frank Cioffi
15. On being surprised: Wittgenstein on aspect-perception, logic, and mathematics Juliet Floyd
16. The enormous danger Gordon C. F. Bearn
Appendix: a page concordance for unnumbered remarks in philosophical investigations William Day.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], History of Western philosophy [HPC], Linguistics [CF]