Vol. 6 No. 1 (2013): Wittgenstein on Aesthetics / Aesthetics on Wittgenstein
Articles

Showing and Saying. An Aesthetic Difference

Published 2013-05-15

Keywords

  • Wittgenstein; Aesthetics; Ethics; Logic

How to Cite

Sanfélix Vidarte, V. (2013). Showing and Saying. An Aesthetic Difference. Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi dell’estetico, 6(1), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-12843

Abstract

Wittgenstein’s distinction between saying and showing and the associated thesis, what can be shown cannot be said, were crucial to his first philosophy, persisted throughout the evolution of his whole thought and played a key role in his views on aesthetics. The objective of art is access to the mystical, forcing us to become aware of the uniqueness of our own experience and life. When art is good is a perfect expression and the work of art becomes like a tautology. An important consequence of this understanding of art is the irreducibility of the aesthetic to the scientific perspective.

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