Augustine and the "poetic composition" of Philosophical Investigations.(Critical essay) From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Although Ludwig "Wittgenstein is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century," David Stern writes, "there is almost no agreement on even the most basic questions about how to understand the Philosophical Investigations." (1) Two such questions, I propose, are these: what can one say about its genre? And why does Wittgenstein embark on the Investigations by quoting from St. Augustine's Confessions, a paradigm for autobiographical form and in the typology of salvation, but also a book in many speech genres, often lyrical, praising, or imploring? One ...

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