Abstract

WOOD, Michael. Como una enfermedad. La escritura y la filosofía según Wittgenstein. Valenciana [online]. 2010, vol.3, n.5, pp.57-66. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i5.272.

Starting from some remarks by Giorgio Agamben on the relation between poetry and prose, and from his invocation of Wittgenstein’s recommendation that philosophy should be written as if it were poetry, this essay explores some of the possible meanings of writing philosophy in this way, and concludes that literary language, as exempli!ed in Wittgenstein’s thought and prose, has three essential features: it requires and rewards extensive interpretation; it uses figures of speech and other rhetorical features as modes of argument; and the form of its saying is an essential part of what is said. What are the consequences for philosophy of such a definition?

Keywords : poetry; prose; philosophy; argument; interpretation.

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