Jan Zwicky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1374946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Zwicky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zwicky |
| SIGNATURE | ZWICKY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Show, Don't Tell
“Show, don't tell” is a maxim basic to literary craft. It enjoins avoidance of abstract, cliché‐ridden summaries and use of rich, vividly rendered details. Anyone who has attended an introductory creative writing course will have encountered it. Practised literary writers know it is true. Why is showing so fundamental to good literature? Why is it more effective than telling? Showing constellates details, placing facets of a larger shape before t…
Frost and Snow
Why awaken the soul to justice if the only result can be to increase awareness of the futility of aspiring to justice in the world? Zwicky documents challenges to the belief that teaching philosophy will result in a fairer polity and suggests that perception of being's integrity sustains pursuit of philosophy as a way of life
Alkibiades’ Love: Essays in Philosophy
Imagination and the Good Life
In this essay, part of a cluster of pieces on her concept of "lyric philosophy," the author explores connections between imagination, understood as the capacity to think in images, and what Wittgenstein called "seeing-as." In seeing-as, we focus on what Wittgenstein identifies as inner structural relations. This is a term that Max Wertheimer, one of the founders of gestalt philosophical psychology, used independently to describe how seeing-as inv…
What Is Lyric Philosophy
These sixty-one numbered paragraphs offer an overview of the idea and practice of lyric philosophy. They draw heavily on the author's texts Lyric Philosophy (1992, 2011), Wisdom & Metaphor (2003), and "Bringhurst's Presocratics: Lyric and Ecology" (1995). The present essay outlines key concepts - clarity as resonance, metaphor as gestalt shift, meaning as gesture, the overlap between philosophy and poetry, the nature of lyric truth - and suggests…
Perspectives on the Philosophy of WittgensteinIrving Block, editor Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981. Pp. xi, 237
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Wittgenstein and the Logic of Inference
The Tractatus first appeared in 1921, the same year that Post's “Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions” appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics . As the latter is the first piece clearly to present and exploit the distinction between a deductive system and a truth-functional interpretation of such a system, we may conclude that Wittgenstein's views had been arrived at somewhat before a variety of logical concepts had…
Imagination and the Good Life
In this essay, part of a cluster of pieces on her concept of "lyric philosophy," the author explores connections between imagination, understood as the capacity to think in images, and what Wittgenstein called "seeing-as." In seeing-as, we focus on what Wittgenstein identifies as inner structural relations. This is a term that Max Wertheimer, one of the founders of gestalt philosophical psychology, used independently to describe how seeing-as inv…
What Is Lyric Philosophy
These sixty-one numbered paragraphs offer an overview of the idea and practice of lyric philosophy. They draw heavily on the author's texts Lyric Philosophy (1992, 2011), Wisdom & Metaphor (2003), and "Bringhurst's Presocratics: Lyric and Ecology" (1995). The present essay outlines key concepts - clarity as resonance, metaphor as gestalt shift, meaning as gesture, the overlap between philosophy and poetry, the nature of lyric truth - and suggests…
Wittgenstein and the Logic of Inference
The Tractatus first appeared in 1921, the same year that Post's “Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions” appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics . As the latter is the first piece clearly to present and exploit the distinction between a deductive system and a truth-functional interpretation of such a system, we may conclude that Wittgenstein's views had been arrived at somewhat before a variety of logical concepts had…
Perspectives on the Philosophy of WittgensteinIrving Block, editor Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981. Pp. xi, 237
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Imagination and the Good Life
In this essay, part of a cluster of pieces on her concept of "lyric philosophy," the author explores connections between imagination, understood as the capacity to think in images, and what Wittgenstein called "seeing-as." In seeing-as, we focus on what Wittgenstein identifies as inner structural relations. This is a term that Max Wertheimer, one of the founders of gestalt philosophical psychology, used independently to describe how seeing-as inv…
What Is Lyric Philosophy
These sixty-one numbered paragraphs offer an overview of the idea and practice of lyric philosophy. They draw heavily on the author's texts Lyric Philosophy (1992, 2011), Wisdom & Metaphor (2003), and "Bringhurst's Presocratics: Lyric and Ecology" (1995). The present essay outlines key concepts - clarity as resonance, metaphor as gestalt shift, meaning as gesture, the overlap between philosophy and poetry, the nature of lyric truth - and suggests…
Alkibiades’ Love: Essays in Philosophy
Show, Don't Tell
“Show, don't tell” is a maxim basic to literary craft. It enjoins avoidance of abstract, cliché‐ridden summaries and use of rich, vividly rendered details. Anyone who has attended an introductory creative writing course will have encountered it. Practised literary writers know it is true. Why is showing so fundamental to good literature? Why is it more effective than telling? Showing constellates details, placing facets of a larger shape before t…
Frost and Snow
Why awaken the soul to justice if the only result can be to increase awareness of the futility of aspiring to justice in the world? Zwicky documents challenges to the belief that teaching philosophy will result in a fairer polity and suggests that perception of being's integrity sustains pursuit of philosophy as a way of life
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works)