Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations, �� 243-315

by Stephen Mulhall

Stephen Mulhall offers a new way of interpreting one of the most famous and contested texts in modern remarks on "private language" in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations . He sheds new light on a central controversy concerning Wittgenstein's early work by showing its relevance to a proper understanding of the later work.

Genres: Philosophy

157 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Tully · Rating 5 out of 5]

indispensible for anyone engaged in a serious reading of PI. His use of Cavell's example of the "corsican brothers" (a test drive of what the other-minds skeptic supposes we lack) makes LW's sense of humanity, of what it means to share the intimacy of a world, vivid and clear. And check out the connection Mulhall makes (as an aside!) b/t the vision of language instruction opened up by PI and Rene Girard's work on mimetic desire---a new theory of evil, I think. Somebody should run with it.