Wittgenstein, History and Hermeneutics  

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Lawn, Christopher

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 29 no. 3 (Mei 2003), page 281–295.
Topik: Gadamer ; hermeneutics ; horizon ; tradition ; Wittgenstein
Fulltext: 281PSC293.pdf (62.34KB)

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Wittgenstein’s ‘language-games’ constitute a forceful post- Cartesian, anti-foundationalist account of linguistic activity with meaning sustained across a network of customary practices or forms of life. This is a fertile picture of language but it depends upon a rigid, synchronic notion of linguistic rules and fails to account for the developmental and transformative dimensions to language. I suggest that Wittgenstein is unable to connect past to present language-games. Despite an obvious proximity of Gadamer to Wittgenstein (on the pragmatics of language) I argue that Gadamer’s work on tradition, with its hermeneutical understanding of the indeterminacy of linguistic rules, exposes Wittgenstein’s apparent blindness to the historical aspect of language.

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