Time: December 7, 2001
7:30 p.m.
Climacus and the Limits of Language
(See abstract below)
Speaker: Bruce Howes
Ph. D (University of Ottawa)
ABSTRACT:
On December 30, 1929 in conversation
with members of the Vienna Circle, Ludwig Wittgenstein referred fairly
directly to what Kierkegaard in Philosophical Fragments calls the
'ultimate paradox' : ... we do run up against the limits of language.
Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something and
he referred to it in a
fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). (WITTGENSTEIN AND
THE VIENNA CIRCLE, p. 68).
The context of these remarks were such that Wittgenstein was clearly
pointing to Fragments as a means by which to better understand his own
Tractarian views on language's limits. Taking guidance from Wittgenstein's
remarks, we will undertake a
study of Kierkegaard's critique of language, referring principally,
but not exclusively, to Kierkegaard's Climacus works. BH
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