On philosophy as therapy: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and autobiographical writing

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 196-210

  Hagberg, Garry ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60950537603     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2003.0023     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books (Oxford: Basii Blackwell, 1958)
2. Philosophical Investigations, 3d ed., trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958)
3. Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, vols. 1 and 2, ed. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980)
4. Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, vol. 1, ed. G. H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982)
5. I have discussed Wittgenstein's scrutiny of some of these issues as they relate to problems of autobiography in "The Self, Speaking: Wittgenstein, Introspective Utterances, and the Arts of Self-Representation," Revue Internationale de Philosophie, ed. J.-P. Cometti, 1 (2002), no. 219: 9-47
6. "The Self, Reflected: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the Autobiographical Situation," in Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003)
7. "The Self, Thinking: Wittgenstein, Augustine, and the Autobiographical Situation," in Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy, ed. Peter Lewis (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming, 2004)
8. "Wittgenstein and the Question of True Self-Interpretation," in Is There a Single Right Interpretation?, ed. Michael Krausz (University Park: Penn State Press, 2002), pp. 381-406
9. "Rightness Reconsidered: Krausz, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Interpretive Understanding," in Interpretation and Its Objects, ed. Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming, 2003)
10. "The Mind Shown: Wittgenstein, Goethe, and the Question of Person-Perception," in Goethe and Wittgenstein: Seeing the World's Unity in Its Variety
11. ed. Fritz Breithaupt, Richard Raatzsch, and Bettina Kremberg, Wittgenstein Studien, Band 5 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 111-26
12. I have discussed this point more fully in "Davidson, SeIf-Knowledge, and Autobiographical Writing," PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 26 (2002): 370-84
13. In The Cavell Reader, ed. Stephen Mulhall (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), pp. 376-89
14. I explore the philosophical relevance of just such a turn to cases in literature in Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)
15. The Cavell Reader, p. 380
16. For a microcosmic specimen of precisely this kind of therapy (by which, as Wittgenstein puts it in Philosophical Investigations § 133, our problems "completely disappear"), see Philosophical Investigations § 154, which uncovers the ineliminable role of "particular circumstances."
17. See A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994)
18. See the foundational writings of John Wisdom in Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953), esp. "Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Psycho-Analysis," pp. 248-82
19. and Paradox and Discovery (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965), esp. "A Feature of Wittgenstein's Technique," pp. 90-103