南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院
学术前沿讲座第294期
题目： 维特根斯坦，言语创造力与艺术风格的延展
Wittgenstein, Verbal Creativity, and the Expansion of Artistic Style
讲座人：美国巴德学院（Bard College）哲学与美学教授
Garry L. Hagberg
主持人：南京大学高研院院长 周宪教授
时间：2016年10月31日（周一）晚上18:30-20:30
地点：仙林校区国际学院（邵逸夫楼）C308高研院报告厅
备注：英语演讲
主讲人简介：
Garry L. Hagberg是美国巴德学院（Bard College）的James H. Ottaway哲学与美学教授，艺术哲学领域的专家。他早年受过音乐、哲学、心理学方面的学术训练，曾在英国牛津大学访学，并在剑桥大学从事博士后研究，目前还任教于英国东安格利亚大学哲学系。他的研究兴趣主要集中在艺术哲学、美学思想史和20世纪以来的语言哲学等，此外还涉及文学、音乐、电影、实用主义以及20世纪哲学史等众多领域。他本人不但著述丰富，同时也担任Philosophy and Literature等杂志的编辑。他的专著有：Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge(1994), Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory(1998), Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness(2008)，论文集Art and Ethical Criticis(2008)， A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (2010) 等。
演讲提要：
Owing to an understandable misinterpretation of a set of Wittgenstein's remarks on what he calls 'language-games' in connection with the larger problem of linguistic meaning, there persists the widespread misconception that anyone following Wittgensteinian directions in the philosophy of languagewill inescapably be stuck with the view that intelligible language-use can only repeat what has already been conventionally or communally established (that is, already meaningfully said within existing language-games), and thus that a Wittgensteinian view of language is at a deep level incompatible with linguistic creativity. This paper will (1) unearth the roots of this interesting and instructive misconception, (2) replace it with a far more
dynamic, interactive, and creative view of linguistic usage that is in truth far closer to Wittgenstein's mature vision of language, and (3) consider some remarkable parallels between the growth or expansion of language games and the expansion of expressive possibilities with an artistic or musical style. It will thus emerge that one way of getting clearer on creative expansion in the arts is to first get clearer on the creative dimension of verbal interaction, and this will give further precise content to the often presumed but rarely specified analogy between language and art.
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