Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit Meaning and Astonishment Buch von Maria Balaska Räumungsverkauf

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. Über den Autor

Maria Balaska is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Brings Wittgenstein and Lacan together for the first time

Examines astonishment in relation to the difficulty of expression

Explores ones own involvement with meaning