Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9783110330137 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2011 / 420 str.

Opis

What is an image? How can we describe the experience of looking at images, and how do they become meaningful to us? In what sense are images like or unlike propositions? Participants of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium--philosophers as well as historians of art, science, and literature--provide many stimulating answers. Some of the contributions are dedicated to Wittgenstein's thoughts on images while others testify to the important role notions coined or inspired by Wittgenstein--"seeing as," "picture games" and the dichotomy of "saying and showing"--play in the field of picture theory today. This first volume of the Proceedings of the 2010 conference addresses readers interested in the history and theory of images, and in the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

O autorze

Richard Heinrich is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His has worked on Renaissance philosophy, classical modernphilosophy, analytic philosophy and literary aesthetics. His publications include the books Kants Erfahrungsraum (Freiburg 1986), Wittgensteins Grenze (Wien 1993), Wahrheit (Wien 2009); recent articles on Wittgenstein are: Wittgenstein: Sprache, Ausdruck, Leben in Lebensform Wittgenstein. Bilder und Begriffe, edited by Ch. Denker (Wien 2009), 25 33; Critique and Genealogy. Wittgenstein on Reading and Influence in Unsocial Sociabilities Wittgenstein s Sources, edited by Esther Ramharter (Berlin 2011), 265 274.
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Wolfram Pichler is assistant professor at the Department of Art history at the University of Vienna. His publications include the essays Configurations of the Image in What is an Image, edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef (University Park, PA, forthcoming) and Topologie des Bildes. Im Plural und im Singular in Das Bild im Plural. Mehrteilige Bildformen zwischen Mittelalter und Gegenwart, edited by David Ganz and Felix Thürlemann (Berlin 2010), 111 132 as well as the books Öffnungen: Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Zeichnung, co-edited with Friedrich Teja Bach (Munich, 2009), and Was aus dem Bild fällt. Figuren des Details in Kunst und Literatur, co-edited with Edith Futscher, Stefan Neuner, and Ralph Ubl (Munich, 2007).
David Wagner is an assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and maintains the department s research platform Tracing Wittgenstein . He is currently writing his Ph.D. thesis on Charles S. Peirce and medieval logic. Wittgenstein-related essays include: Es ist ein Beispiel, bei dem man Gedanken haben kann Wittgenstein liest Hebel in Papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium 2009, edited by V. Munz, K. Puhl and J. Wang (Kirchberg 2009), 427 429 as well as Humble Poets? Wittgenstein and Heidegger read Hebel in Unsocial Sociabilities Wittgenstein s Sources, edited by Esther Ramharter (Berlin 2011), 153 166.