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Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit - Meaning and Astonishment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit - Meaning and Astonishment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and
Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment,' an
experience of being struck by something that appears to be
extraordinarily significant. Both thinkers have a central interest
in the dissatisfaction with meaning that these experiences generate
when we attempt to articulate them, to bring language to bear on
them. Maria Balaska argues that this frustration and difficulty
with meaning reveals a more fundamental characteristic of our
sense-making capacities -namely, their groundlessness. Instead of
disappointment with language's sense-making capacities, Balaska
argues that Wittgenstein and Lacan can help us find in this
revelation of meaning's groundlessness an opportunity to
acknowledge our own involvement in meaning, to creatively
participate in it and thereby to enrich our forms of life with
language.
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