Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding
von: Garry L. Hagberg
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319409108
Sprache: Englisch
400 Seiten, Download: 16083 KB
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| Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding | 4 | ||
| Contents | 6 | ||
| Introduction | 8 | ||
| Part I The Aesthetic Dimension of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Work | 18 | ||
| 1 The Aesthetic Dimension of Wittgenstein’s Later Writings | 19 | ||
| 1.1 Music and Understanding Wittgenstein’s “Book” | 22 | ||
| 1.2 Perspicuous Representation, Aesthetic Descriptions, and Aspect-Seeing | 25 | ||
| Philosophical Clarity and Perspicuous Representation | 26 | ||
| Critical Descriptions and the Experience of Music | 29 | ||
| The Case of the Dawning of an Aspect | 31 | ||
| 1.3 Aspect-Seeing and Seeing an Internal Relation | 33 | ||
| 1.4 Addendum: Aspect-Seeing and Giving Voice to Connections | 41 | ||
| References | 43 | ||
| 2 Improvisation and Imagination in Wittgenstein’s Investigations | 46 | ||
| Bibliography | 73 | ||
| 3 Wittgenstein, Music, and the Philosophy of Culture | 76 | ||
| 3.1 Relational Networks | 78 | ||
| 3.2 A Certain Sort of Kinship | 83 | ||
| 3.3 Embodied Speech, Embodied Music | 87 | ||
| 3.4 Circumstantial Sense | 90 | ||
| 3.5 Musical Sense and Linguistic Capacities | 92 | ||
| 3.6 The Theme Interacts with Language | 95 | ||
| 3.7 Counterpoint: A Model of Cultural Understanding and Philosophical Method | 99 | ||
| 3.8 Aspect-Perception and the Casting of Light | 103 | ||
| 3.9 A Musical Stream of Life | 106 | ||
| References | 108 | ||
| Part II Narrative, Interpretation, and Literary Language | 111 | ||
| 4 Is a Narrative a Something or a Nothing? | 112 | ||
| 4.1 Structures, Scripts, and Their Component Parts | 116 | ||
| 4.2 Emotional Cadences | 123 | ||
| 4.3 Scales, Centers, Samples, and Two Modest Proposals | 128 | ||
| References | 140 | ||
| 5 Narrative Aspect Change and Alternating Systems of Justice: A Wittgensteinian Reading of Borges | 143 | ||
| References | 161 | ||
| 6 Thinking the Poem: Elizabeth Bishop’s Transcendental “Crusoe in England” (For Example) | 164 | ||
| 6.1 Thinking of Thinking | 164 | ||
| 6.2 The Mind Thinking | 180 | ||
| 6.3 Excursus: “A picture held us captive” | 188 | ||
| 6.4 Bookkeeping | 195 | ||
| Accounting as Numerically Counting, Keeping Track | 195 | ||
| Accounting as Recounting and Projecting the Criteria of Concepts | 199 | ||
| 6.5 “Home-made, home-made! But aren’t we all?” | 211 | ||
| Accounting as Acknowledging, Confessing, Auditing | 211 | ||
| Abbreviations | 219 | ||
| References | 220 | ||
| Part III Musical Understanding | 226 | ||
| 7 Wittgenstein on Musical Depth and Our Knowledge of Humankind | 227 | ||
| References | 254 | ||
| 8 Wittgenstein and the Inner Character of Musical Experience | 258 | ||
| 8.1 Aspect Perception | 260 | ||
| 8.2 Related Phenomena | 266 | ||
| 8.3 Context and the Significance of ‘Clicks’ | 272 | ||
| 8.4 Intersubjectivity | 280 | ||
| 8.5 Conclusion | 283 | ||
| References | 288 | ||
| 9 Wittgenstein’s Criticism of a “Science of Aesthetics” and the Understanding of Music | 290 | ||
| 9.1 Wittgenstein’s Criticism of Psychologism | 292 | ||
| Grammatical Investigations of the Concept of Understanding | 293 | ||
| 9.2 Understanding Music | 297 | ||
| Hearing and Understanding | 297 | ||
| Private, Emotional Reactions to Music and Aesthetic Judgment | 301 | ||
| The Flexibility of the Concept of Understanding | 306 | ||
| Bibliography | 309 | ||
| Works by Wittgenstein | 309 | ||
| Other Sources | 309 | ||
| Part IV Experiencing Art and Perceiving Persons: An Intimate Connection | 311 | ||
| 10 The Philosophy of the Face | 312 | ||
| 10.1 Expression-blindness | 312 | ||
| 10.2 The Face in History: Descartes and the Romantics | 315 | ||
| 10.3 The Face in Theory: Levinas, de Man, and Deleuze | 320 | ||
| 10.4 Wittgensteinian Physiognomy | 324 | ||
| References | 332 | ||
| 11 Seeing Stars: the Reception and Ontology of Movie Stars | 335 | ||
| 11.1 Carroll’s Problem | 337 | ||
| 11.2 Wittgenstein and Seeing Stars | 342 | ||
| 11.3 Stars and Narratives | 346 | ||
| 11.4 Personal Lives | 347 | ||
| 11.5 Carroll Again | 350 | ||
| 11.6 Benjamin’s Aura | 351 | ||
| 11.7 The Construction and Evolution of the Star | 356 | ||
| References | 359 | ||
| 12 If an Artwork Could Speak: Aesthetic Understanding After Wittgenstein | 361 | ||
| Prologue | 361 | ||
| 12.1 Understanding Art | 363 | ||
| 12.2 On Not Getting It | 369 | ||
| 12.3 Transport Studies | 374 | ||
| 12.4 Meaning, Intention, and All That Jazz | 379 | ||
| Epilogue | 382 | ||
| References | 383 | ||
| Index | 389 |