Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Through an expressivist philosophy of poetry, he argues that we can understand some of the core questions in the philosophy of language.
Mills highlights the continuity of poetic language with ordinary language, and positions Nietzsche and Wittgenstein's thinking as the clearest way to expand the philosophy of poetry. By tracing the expressivist tradition of philosophy of language, this study locates its roots in German Romanticism right through to the work of contemporary expressivists such as Huw Price and Robert Brandom. Where poetry has been difficult to grasp with the traditional philosophical tools used by aestheticians, A Poetic Philosophy of Language operates at the crossroads between philosophy of art and language, proposing a new philosophy of poetry with wide-ranging potentialities.
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Comment penser une philosophie de la poésie quand la philosophie du langage traditionnelle semble ne laisser que peu de place aux phénomènes poétiques ?
Dans cet ouvrage, Philip Mills élabore une philosophie de la poésie à partir des textes de Nietzsche et de Wittgenstein. Alors que ces penseurs sont habituellement considérés comme éloignés l’un de l’autre, l’auteur soutient qu’une lecture comparée de leurs philosophies permet de reconceptualiser la pensée poétique du langage.
Tout en retraçant la tradition expressiviste de la philosophie du langage, de ses racines dans le romantisme allemand jusqu’aux travaux d’expressivistes contemporains, cette lecture croisée de Nietzsche et de Wittgenstein offre une perspective nouvelle sur la notion d’expressivisme qui est au cœur de débats en philosophie du langage contemporaine.
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Table of Contents
A Tale of Two Divides: Towards a Philosophy of Poetry
1.Language, Representation, and Metaphysics
2.German Philosophy of Language as Romantic Expressivism
3.Pragmatic Expressivism: Brandom, Price, Blackburn
4.From Wittgenstein to Nietzsche and Back
5.Poetry After Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
6.Towards a Perspectival Poetics
Conclusion: A Poetic Philosophy of Language
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Philip Mills is a postdoctoral researcher in French Literature at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).