Wittgenstein and the Theatre of Confession
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Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska
Abstract:
In this article we perform a juxtaposition of Wittgenstein’s confession with the art of drama. Our aim is to transpose the private language argument criticizing the ostensive definition of internal objects (beetle in a box thought experiment) onto confession and the art of drama performance. The play (possibly called “game”) of the actor is not an expression of his soul interior, but an autonomous necessity in the most decisive meaning – which means: the only thing to be done. Correspondingly, confession doesn’t express any interior misery – it is an acting (the double sense of this word will be further developed), the only possible acting within these conditions, the only possible response to one’s condition – a condition of mutilation where human misery appears very distinctly. Confession creates neither a relation of power (as Foucault was demonstrating in his late writings) nor a form of emotional exhibitionism but a language game consisting on words judging oneself, immune to interpretation, explanation, and vanity coming from their expression. Irreplaceable words become the agent of salvation.[1]
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
- Wittgenstein’s Vienna around 1900
- Wittgenstein’s Ambivalent Attitude toward Science and Culture
- Wittgenstein and the Theatre of Confession
- “What belongs to a language game is a whole culture.”
- Lebensform and “socio-cultural background”
- Culture as a Monastic Rule
- Frontverläufe in Wittgensteins Prototractatus
- Recherchen zu „Teil II“ der Philosophischen Untersuchungen und zur von Wittgenstein erstellten „C-Sammlung“ im Nachlass
- Wittgenstein’s Criticism of the “Atmosphere” Conception of Meaning in PI § 117
- Revisiting the Philosophical Investigations’ Children
- On Certainty, Epistemic Incommensurability and Epistemic Relativism
- „Das Buch ist voller Leben …“
- Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes / Authors of this Volume
- Bisher erschienene Bände / Previously published Volumes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
- Wittgenstein’s Vienna around 1900
- Wittgenstein’s Ambivalent Attitude toward Science and Culture
- Wittgenstein and the Theatre of Confession
- “What belongs to a language game is a whole culture.”
- Lebensform and “socio-cultural background”
- Culture as a Monastic Rule
- Frontverläufe in Wittgensteins Prototractatus
- Recherchen zu „Teil II“ der Philosophischen Untersuchungen und zur von Wittgenstein erstellten „C-Sammlung“ im Nachlass
- Wittgenstein’s Criticism of the “Atmosphere” Conception of Meaning in PI § 117
- Revisiting the Philosophical Investigations’ Children
- On Certainty, Epistemic Incommensurability and Epistemic Relativism
- „Das Buch ist voller Leben …“
- Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes / Authors of this Volume
- Bisher erschienene Bände / Previously published Volumes
