[microsound] Re: analytical vs continental philosophy & microsound

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:12 PM -0400 8/1/02, david turgeon wrote:
> as wittgenstein himself suggested (translating freely): "what you 
> can't speak of, you mustn't speak of."

Yes, but at the close of the "Tractatus," he lists the topics about 
which one must remain silent, and these include most of the key areas 
of philosophical inquiry (for example, aesthetics, the self, and 
ethics, if I recall correctly after more than a decade).  To me - and 
I realize many will disagree with this reading - this work is an 
excercise in methodical exhaustion, in which an elaborate logical 
exercise in pushed to a brilliantly tautological extreme at which 
point one finds oneself to have reached the punch line of what must 
be a joke:  none of what has gone before works within the philosophic 
purpose.  In this sense the "Tractatus" distinguishes the logical 
game from the philosophical game and hints that aesthetics (including 
music) can indeed be discussed in philosophy but not inside of a 
rigid and self-referential logic framework, and beyond that framework 
Wittgenstein proceeded to go in his later work.  Well, I am happy to 
read here that people are actually reading and thinking about such 
texts, and am enjoying these recent posts.
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Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boxman Studies Label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/