Thinking in Icelandic and Foreign Tongues

Logi Gunnarsson

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Thinking in Icelandic and Foreign Tongues

Að hugsa á íslensku og útlensku

Auf Isländisch und in Fremdsprachen denken

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Pages:: 255–298

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767450_013

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This chapter is part of an introduction to a book I will write in three different languages: Icelandic, English and German. The writing of the book will be a performative experiment. In a sense, one never knows the outcome of a book until one has finished writing it. However, the writing of this book will be an experiment in a stronger sense: By writing it in three languages, I want to surrender to the languages to find out what happens. The outcome is not simply unknown because I do not know where my pursuit of truth will lead me. It is unknown because I do not know what happens if I give up control in this way. This experiment is performative: In letting the languages lead me, I am also doing something. And nobody can do it for me. In this chapter, I discuss the reasons for undertaking such a performative experiment.

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Wittgensteinian Exercises

Aesthetic and Ethical Transformations

Series: Ästhetische 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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Thinking in Icelandic and Foreign Tongues

Að hugsa á íslensku og útlensku

Auf Isländisch und in Fremdsprachen denken

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