Ebook: Applying Wittgenstein

In the light of a radical reassessment of Wittgenstein's work currently taking place in contemporary Wittgenstein scholarship, 'Applying Wittgeinstein' offers a dynamic reading of Wittgenstein's later works.;Language -- Towards a working through of 'meaning as use' -- Presumption versus assumption -- Distinguishing 'meaningful consequences' from 'grammatical effects' -- Towards a dynamic, applied conception of meaning -- What does 'signify' signify? -- Literature -- 'Wittgensteinian' poetry -- Wallace Stevens as 'Wittgensteinian' -- The many meanings of 'seeing' : a literary 'reminder' -- Invitations to nonsense : poetry considered as a therapeutic tool -- Wittgenstein as Stevensian? -- 'Modernist' performative literature : philosophy, poetry, prose -- 'Wittgensteinian' prose -- The 'strong grammar' of Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Delusions of 'sense' in the 'representation' of derangement : the dangers of interpretation --'Creative mimicry' and the untranslatable metaphor --Wittgenstein and the 'sound of sense' -- Time -- Dummett challenged : beyond 'realist' and 'anti-realist' renderings of time -- Introduction -- Using nonsense to combat nonsense : different conceptions -- How to discuss matters with a realist -- Realism versus anti-realism? -- An intermediate conclusion -- Methodological reflections -- A better picture of time ( -statements) -- On still wanting to ask, "what is time?" -- Conclusions : what is it to apply Wittgenstein to time? : or : what is a grammatical investigation? -- (Dis)solving the 'time-slice' conception of time -- Introduction -- How not to represent space-time -- Are we limited beings? -- Continuity -- Real time-slice talk -- Metaphysicians' time-slice talk -- Dummett on time-slices -- Against time-slice talk? -- In closing.