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Abstract
In this essay I try to sketch the difficulties that face anyone writing about Wittgenstein’s later method. I then insist that an underappreciated remark of his be taken seriously: that his method be seen as natural-historical. There are several difficulties that result from taking this stance, and I believe I address each of them after developing a fuller picture of what a “natural-historical method” will mean (and here I am broadly following lines laid out by Michael Thompson). I conclude with literary examples (Sebald’s Austerlitz and his Rings of Saturn) in order to exemplify further the recuperative and fantasy-defeating potential of a natural-historical method akin to Wittgenstein’s.
Online erschienen: 2017-4-21
Erschienen im Druck: 2017-4-1
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