Writing Philosophy as Poetry: Wittgenstein’s Literary Syntax
Marjorie Perloff (professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the University of Southern California)
translated by Mateusz Pytko (University of Warsaw)
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This article concerns Wittgenstein’s way of writing. Among the questions that have been addresses, there is the relation between common language and literary language. Another problem is Wittgenstein’s aphoristic writing. Wittgenstein’s poetics of writing has been analyzed in the light of its similarity to the poetry, games and poetics of Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams.
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