Arvi S\u00e4rkel\u00e4<\/p>\n
ETH Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n
4 June 2023, 17h00 (Lisbon Summer Time \u2014 GMT+1)<\/p>\n
Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Room C201.J \u2013 Department of Philosophy)<\/strong><\/p>\n School of Arts and Humanities \u2013 University of Lisbon<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n Wittgenstein once quipped that philosophy should be written like poetry. Does he himself follow this imperative? Given that he describes his aim in philosophy as \u201cshow[ing] the fly a way out of the fly-bottle\u201d (PI, \u00a7309), that is, as a method of \u201cshowing\u201d rather than \u201csaying\u201d (TLP, 4.1212), one may hypothesize that he perhaps did. When Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations<\/em> recounts the experience of captivity in the fly-bottle, he sometimes dissociates by writing about \u201cthe author of the Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus<\/em>.\u201d Now, the author of TLP is obviously the same empirical and juridical person as the author of PI, Ludwig Wittgenstein, born on 26 April 1889, in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire. But if we, at least for the sake of experiment, take this person\u2019s quip about writing philosophy like poetry seriously, then the author writing the PI and \u201cthe author of the Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus<\/em>\u201d can be read as different characters. The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, who was born only one year before Wittgenstein, explored intensely this poetic method of self-othering. During his brief life, he produced more than seventy such poetic characters. To emphasize the authorial status of these characters, their independent intellectual life and unique perspective, he did not call them pseudonyms but heteronyms. One of the most famous of these heteronyms is \u00c1lvaro de Campos. He was born one year after Wittgenstein. Like Wittgenstein, he studied engineering in Great Britain and wanted to become a philosopher. Unlike Wittgenstein he failed, and instead, mirroring Wittgenstein\u2019s quip, tried to write poetry like philosophy.<\/p>\n In the poem \u201cTabacaria<\/em>\u201d (The Tobacconist\u2019s Shop, 1928), Pessoa stages Campos behind a window looking across a Lisbon street at the Tobacconist\u2019s on the opposite side. Like \u201cthe author of the Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus<\/em>,\u201d Campos experiences an existential captivity behind a glass: a state of seeing everything with \u201cabsolute clarity\u201d yet unable to get at life, to touch, smell, manipulate the things. Towards the end of the poem, he says to himself, in a language reminiscent of the turn Wittgenstein would take one year after Tabacaria<\/em>, that \u201cmetaphysics is a consequence of feeling sick.\u201d This talk will be devoted to a comparative reading of the poetic method of heteronym and the poetic topos<\/em> of a life behind a glass in Pessoa\u2019s Tabacaria<\/em> and Wittgenstein\u2019s PI. The hypothesis is that Wittgenstein and Pessoa use similar yet different poetic methods that, however, appear as philosophically significant. And they do this in an attempt to alienate themselves in order to alienate the reader from an alienating form of life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arvi S\u00e4rkel\u00e4 ETH Z\u00fcrich Life behind a Glass: Alienation and Disclosure in Wittgenstein and Pessoa 4 June 2023, 17h00 (Lisbon Summer Time \u2014 GMT+1) Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Room C201.J \u2013 Department of Philosophy) School of Arts and Humanities \u2013 University of Lisbon Abstract Wittgenstein once quipped that philosophy should be written like poetry. 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