Knowledge, ethics and the limits of language
Wittgenstein and Lyotard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Schalkwyk (University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 86-111 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719608530128 |
| OpenAlex | W2067750846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article investigates the concepts of the unsayable, the unrepresentable, and the unpresentable in the early and the later Wittgenstein and in the work of Lyotard. It compares the ethics of Wittgenstein's injunction in the Tractatus, that we must keep silent about that whereof we cannot speak, with Lyotard's attempt to form an ethics around the unrepresentable through the “differend”. Lyotard's reduction of the grammatical to the theoretical thus produces a differend at the heart of his own ethical project
Acknowledgement · Epistemology · Humanism · Kantian ethics · Theology · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |