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No 1 (56) 2019

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)

The full version of this article is available  in Polish  in the printed version of Tekstualia and in the on-line subscription.

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.

The sample of Polish version of this article is available here: https://tekstualia.pl/files/e558a931/perloff_m._-_filozofia_pisana_jako_poezja...tlum._pytko.m._fragment.pdf 

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