Abstract
This paper discusses the concluding remarks of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It argues that those remarks specify the task for the readers of this strange text: to overcome the illusion of sense that the propositions of the book possess, and win through to a recognition that those propositions are in fact nonsensical. In order to achieve this recognition, the text demands that its readers undergo an ethical transformation. For to recognise ‘philosophical theorising’ as nonsensical is to cease approaching the world in a spirit of dissatisfaction and alienation from one’s own life with language. In this way, the text proposes that those who can ‘win out over’ its propositions, will come to ‘see the world rightly’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 18th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2013 |
| Editors | Shane Strange, Kay Rozynski |
| Place of Publication | Canberra |
| Publisher | The Australiasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780980757378 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being Papers: 18th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2013 - Canberra, Canberra, Australia Duration: 25 Nov 2013 → 27 Nov 2013 http://www.aawp.org.au/publications/the-creative-manoeuvres-making-saying-being-papers/ |
Conference
| Conference | The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being Papers |
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| Abbreviated title | AAWP 2013 |
| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Canberra |
| Period | 25/11/13 → 27/11/13 |
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