Word: wittgensteinian
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...films try to make some sense of the chaos that I create and live in,” Toback says. “The whole Wittgensteinian, Kierkegaardian, Heideggarian essence of my consciousness is explored to the extent that one can explore it in a movie...
None of us choose our moments of epiphany. I wish that mine had occurred while I was poring over Hesiod's Theogeny or Wittgensteinian tracts. Life unfortunately is not often subtle; its punches are direct and (if you emerge unscathed) illuminating. Earlier this autumn, I was in front of an upscale Manhattan emporium, an indigent family, authentically caked in grime and clothed, literally, in rags, a stark contrast with the bored impolitically furclad matrons streaming out of the store. (Yes, the Dickensian parallel is deliberate...
...second lecture, a careful reading of Saul Kripke's account of the Wittgensteinian "solution" to the problem of skepticism, appears at first to bear little relation to the first lecture. Here Cavell is intent on untangling Kripke's seductive interpretation of Wittgenstein's passages on rule-following. Kripke, Cavell suggests, misconstrues Wittgenstein's sense of the skeptical in his very supposition that there is a problem to be solved...
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