Temptations of Purity: Phenomenological Language and Immediate Experience

In Florian Franken Figueiredo (ed.), Forthcoming (March 2023): _Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929_. New York: Routledge (2023)
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In manuscripts from 1929, Wittgenstein envisaged a phenomenological language as a means to describe the experience of objects, alternative to an account of experienced objects provided by ordinary language - but the project failed. The chapter addresses that failure and its significance to philosophical methodology. Wittgenstein acknowledges that the ideal of a non-hypothetical description of immediate experience tempted not only him, but also other philosophers. The chapter traces an itinerary to his concerns that the fulfilment of that ideal - to purely describe a purified experience - would eventually lead into "a bewitched swamp where everything comprehensible vanishes" and would ultimately involve an "inarticulate sound with which many writers would like to begin philosophy". Wittgenstein perceives variations of that sound in Husserl, Heidegger, and the private language he later addresses.

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Mihai Ometiță
ICUB-Humanities, Research Institute of The University of Bucharest

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