Description
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.
Chapter
2 Aspects, Sense, and Perception
1. The senses of sense: sense and perception
3 An Allegory of Affinities: On Seeing a World of Aspects in a Universe of Things
4. Cavell and the allegory of words
5. Letting the aspects of the world alone
5 In a New Light: Wittgenstein, Aspect-Perception, and Retrospective Change in Self-Understanding
6 The Bodily Root: Seeing Aspects and Inner Experience
2. Thinking with the body
7 (Ef)facing the Soul: Wittgenstein and Materialism
8 Wittgenstein on Aspect-Seeing, the Nature of Discursive Consciousness, and the Experience of Agency
9 The Philosophical Significance of Meaning-Blindness
1. Placing philosophical investigations part II, section 11 in context
2. Rhees on the significance of aspect-seeing
3. Meaning-blindness and the philosophical avoidance of meaning
4. Meaning-blindness and the recalcitrant pupil
5. Philosophical criticism and our lives in language
10 Wanting to Say Something: Aspect-Blindness and Language
11 On Learning from Wittgenstein, or What Does it take to see the grammar of seeing aspects?
Learning from Wittgenstein: I
Learning from Wittgenstein: II
12 The Work of Wittgenstein’s Words: A Reply to Baz
13 On the Difficulty of Seeing Aspects and the “Therapeutic” Reading of Wittgenstein
14 Overviews: What Are They of and What Are They For?
2. The heuristic rationale for overviews
3. Overviews for the sake of overviews: the synoptic sensibility
4. Overviews in the interest of self-clarification
5. What is sinister about human sacrifice?
6. Overviews as a response to ambivalence, inconstancy, and absence of closure
7. Why overviews may fail to bring “peace”
9. The relevant community as arbiter: how is it identified?
10. Summary and conclusion
15 On Being Surprised: Wittgenstein on Aspect-Perception, Logic, and Mathematics
Appendix: A Page Concordance for Unnumbered Remarks in Philosophical investigations
Seeing Wittgenstein Anew
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