A Picture Held Us Captive

Tea Lobo

Published by De Gruyter 2019

A Picture Held Us Captive

On Aisthesis and Interiority in Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and W.G. Sebald

Tea Lobo

Volume 6 in the series On Wittgenstein

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612301

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While there are publications on Wittgenstein’s interest in Dostoevsky’s novels and the recurring mentions of Wittgenstein in Sebald’s works, there has been no systematic scholarship on the relation between perception (such as showing and pictures) and the problem of an adequate presentation of interiority (such as intentions or pain) for these three thinkers.This relation is important in Wittgenstein’s treatment of the subject and in his private language argument, but it is also an often overlooked motif in both Dostoevsky’s and Sebald’s works.

Dostoevsky’s depiction of mindset discrepancies in a rapidly modernizing Russia can be analyzed interms of multi-aspectivity. The theatricality of his characters demonstrates especially well Wittgenstein’s account of interiority's interrelatedness with overt public practices and codes.

In Sebald’s Austerlitz, Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblances is an aesthetic strategy within the novel. Visual tropes are most obviously present in Sebald's use of photography, and can partially be read as an ethical-aesthetic imperative of rendering pain visible. Tea Lobo's book contributes towards a non-Cartesian account of literary presentations of inner life based on Wittgenstein's thought.

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Tea Lobo, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Accessible Download PDF	V
Contents Accessible Download PDF	VII
Note on the Russian Transliteration Accessible Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
1. Aisthesis and Interiority in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Writings Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	31
2. Showing Intentions and Seeing Aspects in Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s Novels Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	119
3. The Visibility of Pain in W. G. Sebald’s Novels Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	197
Conclusion Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	273
Bibliography Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	276
Index of Names Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	288
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, library (contemporary philosophy, logic, philosophy of language, analytic philosophy)
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 292
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
Keywords: Aisthesis; Pain; Wittgenstein; Sebald; Dostoevsky

eBook

Published: May 20, 2019
ISBN: 9783110612301

Hardcover

Published: May 20, 2019
ISBN: 9783110610338