Applying Wittgenstein (Hardcover)

Foreword, by the editor 'On applying Wittgenstein'; Introduction by the author Part One: Language 1.1 Working through 'meaning as use' 1.2 Presumption versus assumption 1.3 Distinguishing 'meaningful consequences' from 'grammatical effects' 1.4 Towards a dynamic, applied conception of meaning 1.5 What does 'signify' signify? Part Two: Literature 'Wittgensteinian' Poetry 2.1 Wallace Stevens as 'Wittgensteinian' 2.2 The many meanings of 'seeing': a literary 'reminder' 2.3 Invitations to nonsense: poetry considered as a therapeutic tool 2.4 Wittgenstein as Stevensian? 2.5 'Modernist performative literature: philosophy, poetry, prose 'Wittgensteinian' Prose 2.5 The 'Strong grammar' of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury 2.6 Delusions of 'sense' in the representation of derangement: The 'dangers' of interpretation 2.7 'Creative mimicry' and the untranslatable metaphor 2.8 Wittgenstein and the 'sound of sense' Part Three: Time 3.1 Dummett challenged: Beyond 'Realist' and 'Anti-Realist' renderings of time 3.2 (Dis)solving the 'time-slice' conception of time Conclusion Philosophical problems are at root problems of mood Afterword Further prospects for applying Wittgenstein