The self, linguistic and aesthetic : a study in the early philosophy of Wittgenstein and Sartre
The dissertation operates at two levels: an account of a problematic of self in the early philosophy of Wittgenstein and Sartre - which simultaneously supports a comparative study that claims convergence is significant, detailed and extensive. The thesis thus disputes the traditional - 'Divide' - reading of Sartre and Wittgenstein. The problematic is defined by the view that the self desires an ethical absolute and that this can only be achieved when a metaphysics of aesthetics is assumed. It is a certain concept of language and self, based on a saying-showing distinction. that so constitutes the problematic. and which is the focus of inquiry. This results in the following structure: Â§l Defines and defends the thesis' Art-andthe- Ineffable' - and thus the generic principle of the present thesis. Â§2 Claims, firstly, (and perhaps for the first time), that Sartre has a philosophy of language that includes a formal principle of the ineffable and a - (Tractarian) saying-showing distinction: both of which are equally formative in his own (early) philosophy. Secondly. that the saying-showing distinction is identified with a concept of self. Â§3 Exposes the (previously neglected) early account of self in Sartre
Stobbart, J. Barry
Philosophy
The self, linguistic and aesthetic : a study in the early philosophy of Wittgenstein and Sartre. The dissertation operates at two levels: an account of a problematic of self in the early philosophy of Wittgenstein and Sartre - which simultaneously supports a comparative study that claims convergence is significant, detailed and extensive. The thesis thus disputes the traditional - 'Divide' - reading of Sartre and Wittgenstein. The problematic is defined by the view that the self desires an ethical absolute and that this can only be achieved when a metaphysics of aesthetics is assumed. It is a certain concept of language and self, based on a saying-showing distinction. that so constitutes the problematic. and which is the focus of inquiry. This results in the following structure: Â§l Defines and defends the thesis' Art-andthe- Ineffable' - and thus the generic principle of the present thesis. Â§2 Claims, firstly, (and perhaps for the first time), that Sartre has a philosophy of language that includes a formal principle of the ineffable and a - (Tractarian) saying-showing distinction: both of which are equally formative in his own (early) philosophy. Secondly. that the saying-showing distinction is identified with a concept of self. Â§3 Exposes the (previously neglected) early account of self in Sartre
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