Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit Meaning and Astonishment /

• Main Author: Balaska, Maria (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Language and languages-Philosophy.; Ethics.; Analysis (Philosophy).; Aesthetics.; Philosophy of Language.; Analytic Philosophy.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Expression of Astonishment
• 3. Groundlessness in the Tractatus
• 4. The Groundlessness of Meaning in Lacan's Work
• 5. From Deflection to Reflection: A Creative Involvement with Language
• 6. From Groundlessness to Creativity: The Merits of Astonishment for Wittgenstein
• 7. From Groundlessness to Creativity: The Merits of Astonishment for Lacan.