Conference Presentations by Ludwig Drosch
Reflections on the workings of nonsense in poetry with examples by Lewis Carroll, Konrad Bayer an... more Reflections on the workings of nonsense in poetry with examples by Lewis Carroll, Konrad Bayer and Christophe Tarkos.
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Contributions of the 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposion, 2019
In §92 of On Certainty, Wittgenstein gives the example of two divergent worldviews whose gap cann... more In §92 of On Certainty, Wittgenstein gives the example of two divergent worldviews whose gap cannot be bridged by the giving of reasons, but only by a conversion to an entirely new perspective. The paragraph condenses an important strain of Wittgenstein‘s thought on the ultimate groundlessness of our belief system, and the consequent limits of rational justification as the mediator between different worldviews, that I recapitulate in the first part of this essay. Second, by taking a hint from the remark concluding §92, and with recourse to Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics, I aim to show how these reflections on the limits of reason-giving point to the ethical importance of aesthetic reflection and art. Where rational discourse fails - not merely empirically, but in its very possibilities, as in the example of §92 - to bring into communication divergent perspectives, the question becomes how incompatible pictures of the world could be brought into contact.
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Seminar Papers by Ludwig Drosch
Eine Untersuchung des Begriffs und Phänomens der Gewohnheit in Rückgriff auf Dewey, Merleau-Ponty... more Eine Untersuchung des Begriffs und Phänomens der Gewohnheit in Rückgriff auf Dewey, Merleau-Ponty und Wittgenstein.
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