Volume 62, Issue 4, December 2022
Jerry Gill
Pages 433-442
https://doi.org/10.5840/ipq2023912210
Wittgenstein
A Kind of Poet
My purpose here is to focus on an aspect of Ludwig Wittgenstein¡¯s later philosophy which has not yet been fully explored, namely the way in which his insights border on being as much aesthetic as they are philosophical. I am suggesting that his work can be seen as an effort to redirect our attention away from the usual issues of linguistic philosophy and towards a broader perspective on the task of thinking about the nature of the relationship between language and the world. I shall draw briefly on the writings of J. L. Austin in order to amplify this perspective.