WittgensteinâPhilosophy as Aesthetic Practice

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767450_005

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Through a special reading of Wittgensteinâs philosophy, this chapter explores a genuine epistemic mode called âexercising-knowledge.â This kind of knowledge unfolds its epistemic potential only through enacting and can be implemented in philosophical argumentation and reflection in the form of exercises like comparing language-games and imagining situations of language uses, or even of physical exercises to move the body in a certain way. This chapter focuses, in particular, on one important type of exercise, which leads to the limits of sense and provides experiences of nonsense. Exercising-knowledge has a correcting function with respect to any misconceptions and fallacies that arise in abstract thinking and enables a philosophical practice of differentiation. This can be described as a concrete mode of thinking, that takes into account the interactions between thinking, imagination, affectivity, sensitivity, and material and social conditions. A philosophy that explores these constitutive dependencies from an epistemic perspective of participation (through the voluntary designing of appropriate exercises) can be called âphilosophy as aesthetic practice.â

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Wittgensteinian Exercises

Aesthetic and Ethical Transformations

Series:Â Ãsthetische Praxis, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9783846767450

Publisher:: Brill | Fink

Print Publication Date:: 26 Apr 2023

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- Philosophy
  - Aesthetics & Cultural Theory

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Section I Transformative Paths: Philosophical Exercises and Aesthetic Practices

Section II Philosophical Exercises and Ethical Transformations

Section III Practicing Philosophy in a Wittgensteinian Spirit

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