... and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Against Derrida, and drawing on Wittgenstein and Gareth Evans, the chapter argues that Celan’s poems propose a historically contingent model of understanding that relies on collective name-using practices. Against Gadamer, it claims that Celan’s poems bear intrinsically evanescent...

... of liberal theology religious naturalism Rowe William transcendental idealism grace Hardwick Charley sacred Smith John E Stone J A valuational theism ontology metaphysics Wittgenstein Ludwig ethics practical reason Shook John R evil hope Soneson J P tragedy Peirce Charles S problem...

... the idea of philosophy as a kind of reading. autobiography Cavell and The Claim of Reason Cavell philosophy as education of grownups Bearn on Augustine Saint language Augustine on luck Cavell on Wittgenstein Ludwig Bearn on primitive Cavell on essence Wittgenstein on philosophy Cavell on teaching...

... a kind of conversion, for this will be a condition of the autonomy of the grownup. It is reference not just to Wittgenstein and Augustine but to Thoreau that leads Cavell back to thoughts of America and specifically to the thought that the public language of America is inadequate to the promise...

... of nihilism with the threat of pointlessness and suggests that any philosopher who writes in response to the threat of irredeemable pointlessness is an existentialist. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an existential philosopher. Conceived as a response to the threat of pointlessness and meaninglessness, existentialism...

... of representation, in contrast to an actual performance which has broken through to touch life. Heinrich von Kleist’s “On the Marionette Theater” is not explicitly about authenticity, but about dancing gracefully. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s story about attaining authenticity can be described in three stages with a solid...

... to a semiology of movements as the basis for his new work, then a shift that must be interrogated has occurred. As Ludwig Wittgenstein demonstrated to philosophers the kinetic force of language in his apothegm “the meaning is in the use”, so Cunningham showed the world of modern dance that the meaning...

...This chapter considers the nature of puns not (as it has frequently been considered) as a form of semantic ambiguity, but in terms of the capacity of language to assert its status as object. Using Wittgenstein’s notion of aspect seeing, it argues that by calling attention to two meanings at once...

...Derrida was interested in metaphysics insofar as he could replay it all over again, da capo. This means looking beyond givenness, beyond what is present at hand, taking seriously Wittgenstein’s motto “the meaning of the world lies outside the world,” even if there is no outside...

... in this city of words. The terror-accused were able to make the legal language their own, and thus they were able to make their way through the legal process. legal language Cover Robert Wittgenstein Ludwig writing Cavell Stanley jurisgenesis state bipolar conceptions of tekhne Conley John and William...

... are directed by our interests. They are vulnerable to experience. I propose to define a moral realism of concepts by the ability, described by Cavell and Das, to project or lose our words and concepts in new contexts and forms of life Cavell Stanley Das Veena Laugier Sandra Wittgenstein Ludwig experience...

...Philosophy, in this book, is conceptualized through the combined ideas of Wittgenstein and Aristotle. Wittgenstein would describe philosophy as not having a distinct subject matter; Aristotle gives importance to the difference between spoken words and what one really thinks or means to say. One...

...Russell’s theory of “determined in advance” attempts to point out contradictions in Wittgenstein’s Remarks in the Foundations of Mathematics. Wittgenstein, instead of opposing it, relates this theory with simple inference. Formalization is important for it attempts to further...

... language in the light of Ludwig Wittgenstein's late works to the concept of a personal God informed by Martin Buber's I and Thou. It argues that Putnam's efforts to combine a pragmatist-style naturalism with faith in a personal God is an authentic expression of the “cross pressures...

...” or a reaffirmation of “general education” cannot by themselves constitute any kind of solution to this problem. It is against this background that Bearn admires Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein but worries that the interpretation this yields, with the intermittent stability that it seeks, stands in the way...

... of Judaism is an open-ended conversation across the generations. In explicating Mendelssohn's conception of Judaism as a conversation-based sociality, the chapter invokes its modern parallel in Ludwig Wittgenstein's analysis of how meaning is constructed through language practices that are open to constant...

... for all. The idea of forms of life is introduced in its horizontal dimension as “form” and its vertical dimension as “life” showing how forms of life are both, particular to a milieu and as drawing from our common background as humans. action agreement Anscombe G E M ethnography Wittgenstein Ludwig...

...This chapter argues that Shakespeare and Donne’s representations of intimacy in marriage can be illuminated by Wittgenstein’s idea of private language as interpreted by Stanley Cavell. In “The Phoenix and Turtle” Shakespeare crafts a lyric that entertains a Wittgensteinian puzzle: namely...

...This chapter challenges many of the most established explanations of the problem of evil, arguing that the theist's solutions to this problem are frequently inconsistent. It first examines the views of Karl Barth and Paul Tillich, on the one hand, and certain interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein...