Seeing Wittgenstein anew

Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding concept in his efforts to turn philosophy's attention to the actual conditions of our common life in language. The essays in this 2010 volume open up novel paths across familiar fields of thought: the objectivity of interpretation, the fixity of the past, the acquisition of language, and the nature of human consciousness. Significantly, they exemplify how continuing consideration of the interrelated phenomena of aspect-seeing might produce a fruitful way of doing philosophy in a new century.

Introduction: seeing aspects in Wittgenstein / William Day and Victor J. Krebs -- Aesthetic analogies / Norton Batkin -- Aspects, sense, and perception / Sandra Laugier -- An allegory of affinities: on seeing a world of aspects in a universe of things / Timothy Gould -- The touch of words / Stanley Cavell -- In a new light: Wittgenstein, aspect-perception, and retrospective change in self-understanding / Garry L. Hagberg -- The bodily root: seeing aspects and inner experience / Victor J. Krebs -- (Ef)facing the soul: Wittgenstein and materialism / David R. Cerbone -- Wittgenstein on aspect-seeing, the nature of discursive consciousness, and the experience of agency / Richard Eldridge -- The philosophical significance of meaning-blindness / Edward Minar -- Wanting to say something: aspect-blindness and language / William Day -- On learning from Wittgenstein, or what does it take to see the grammar of seeing aspects? / Avner Baz -- The work of Wittgenstein's words: a reply to Baz / Stephen Mulhall -- On the difficulty of seeing aspects and the 'therapeutic' reading of Wittgenstein / Steven G. Affeldt -- Overviews: what are they of and what are they for? / Frank Cioffi -- On being su…