From the Ordinary to the Everyday

Datos Bibliográficos

ID16705347
AutoresSandra Laugier (0000-0002-9676-5854, autor de correspondencia), Hannah Cox (0009-0007-9896-720X)
Año2024
Volumen33
Número1
Páginas17-34
Fecha de publicación2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQui Parle (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10418385-11125464
OpenAlexW4399724241
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas8

This is a new English translation of “De l’ordinaire au quotidien,” originally published in French in 2023. In paragraph 116 of Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein seems to outline the fundamental goal of his philosophy: “What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.” The everyday use to which Wittgenstein constantly refers is far from self-evident: it is just as elusive and indeterminate as our forms of life. The project of Philosophical Investigations is not to replace disqualified logic with the study of use, finding therein a new foundation or new convictions, even purely practical ones. The study of everyday language use presents new problems, arduous in a different way from those of logical analysis, as J. L. Austin and the Oxford School later showed—the same school that, in coining the term Ordinary language philosophy, formalized the Ordinary rather than the Everyday as a central concept. The present article considers several reasons for returning to the concept of the Everyday, Wittgenstein’s point of departure, in the philosophy of language

Coining (mint · Epistemology · Everyday life · Metaphysics · Ordinary language philosophy · Paragraph · Philosophy of language · Sociology · Western philosophy · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications