Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language

Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley, US.Maria Balaska, Paris 8 University, France.Sebastian Sunday Grève, University of Oxford, UK.Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, US.John Hyman, University of Oxford, UK.Wolfgang Kienzler, University of Jena, Germany.Jakub Mácha, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, University of Hertfordshire, UK. Stephen Mulhall, University of Oxford, UK. Alois Pichler, University of Bergen, Norway. Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, UK. Ben Ware, University of London, UK.

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The Good, the Bad and the Creative: Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy; Sebastian Sunday Greve and Jakub Macha PART II: OVERTURE 2. Cats on the Table, New Blood for Old Dogs: What Distinguishes Reading Philosophers (on Poets) from Reading Poets?; Stephen Mulhall PART III: READING: WITTGENSTEIN: WRITING 3. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Us 'Typical Western Scientists'; Alois Pichler 4. Wittgenstein on Godelian 'Incompleteness', Proofs and Mathematical Practice: Reading Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Part I, Appendix III, Carefully; Wolfgang Kienzler and Sebastian Sunday Greve 5. Wittgenstein: No Linguistic Idealist; Daniele Moyal-Sharrock PART IV: PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS 6. Wittgenstein, Verbal Creativity and the Expansion of Artistic Style; Garry L. Hagberg 7. Doubt and Display: A Foundation for a Wittgensteinian Approach to the Arts; Charles Altieri 8. The Urn and the Chamber Pot; John Hyman PART V: CREATIVITY AND THE MORAL LIFE 9. Wittgenstein and Diamond on Meaning and Experience: From Groundlessness to Creativity; Maria Balaska 10. Find It New: Aspect-Perception and Modernist Ethics; Ben Ware 11. Metaphysics Is Metaphorics: Philosophical and Ecological Reflections from Wittgenstein and Lakoff on the Pros and Cons of Linguistic Creativity; Rupert Read