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Anna Boncompagni, Wittgenstein. Lo sguardo e il limite, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2011, pp. 218
Lanzetta, Silvia
2015
Abstract
Wittgenstein, lo sguardo e il limite portrays Wittgenstein’s philosophy as a gaze placed on the limits – closed off to science – of what can be thought. This interpretation is finally applied not only to the early Wittgenstein, but to the whole of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and beyond the differences which are present in its different phases. This gaze has a methodological role: in the Tractatus, it unfurls through the unspoken, through which the that of the world – that the world is – shows itself. Later on, the gaze’s methodological role undergoes a metamorphosis which at once results in the invitation both not to think and to look – not to try to explain, rather to look beyond the concepts, through the method of the synoptic representation. The author, Anna Boncompagni, shows that not only the language, but also the gaze, in its variations, is a unifying theme behind all of Wittgenstein’s works, be it the gaze of the ineffable metaphysical subject, or the anthropological gaze that meets the limits of the human form of life – the gaze, aimed at understanding their meaning, towards the use of the words.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Silvia Lanzetta, "Anna Boncompagni, Wittgenstein. Lo sguardo e il limite, Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2011, pp. 218", in "APhEx 12", 2015, pp. 19
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it
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