Approaching the study of literature as a unique form of the
philosophy of language and mind--as a study of how we produce
nonsense and imagine it as sense--this is a book about our human
ways of making and losing meaning. Brett Bourbon asserts that our
complex and variable relation with language defines a domain of
meaning and being that is misconstrued and missed in philosophy, in
literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of what we are
and how things make sense. Accordingly, his book seeks to
demonstrate how the study of literature gives us the means to
understand this relationship.
The book itself is framed by the literary and philosophical
challenges presented by Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" and
Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations." With reference to
these books and the problems of interpretation and meaning that
they pose, Bourbon makes a case for the fundamental philosophical
character of the study of literature, and for its dependence on
theories of meaning disguised as theories of mind. Within this
context, he provides original accounts of what sentences, fictions,
non-fictions, and poems are; produces a new account of the logical
form of fiction and of the limits of interpretation that follow
from it; and delineates a new and fruitful domain of inquiry in
which literature, philosophy, and science intersect.
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