Wittgenstein’s “Culture and Value” gathers lectures, essays, and notes on aesthetics, ethics, art, religion, and culture, including writing that spans his…
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Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value for literary criticism
How ordinary language philosophy reshapes the debate over close reading
Close reading has long served as a test of interpretive patience: readers linger over cadence, ambiguity, imagery, and syntax rather than treating a text as a…
A new digital archive of Austin’s lecture notes
OLP & Literary Studies Online announces the launch of the Austin Lecture Notes Archive, a new research resource for students and scholars. It brings together…
Teaching the ordinary in an introduction to literary theory course
An introductory literary theory course can seem distant when it begins with terms such as signifier, discourse and ideology. Ordinary language philosophy…
CFP: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the literature of self-knowledge
This call for papers invites work at the meeting point of ordinary language philosophy and literary studies. It asks how philosophical accounts of…
Austin’s “Other Minds” and the Puzzle of Fictional Characters
J. L. Austin’s essay “Other Minds” examines a familiar philosophical problem: how can we know that another person has feelings, intentions, or experiences when…
Words, Use, and Wittgenstein in Grayling’s New Study
Anthony C. Grayling’s Wittgenstein and the Life of Words approaches Ludwig Wittgenstein through a deceptively simple idea: words have lives because they…
Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Habits of Reading
The influence of ordinary language philosophy on reader-response theory is clearest not as a simple line of descent, but as a shared concern with language in…
Cavell and ordinary language pedagogy: a call for papers
Stanley Cavell’s writing asks how philosophical language shapes ordinary life, while Wittgenstein treats language as a practice embedded in forms of life.…
Cavell and Voice in Australian Literary Studies
Stanley Cavell’s work gives ordinary language philosophy a distinctive place in literary studies. His interest in voice is not a synonym for a writer’s…