How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free | Aeon Ideas
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Wittgenstein analysed the way we use language. Marcuse declared his work politically irrelevant. Is it?
Have you tried to describe the aroma of coffee and not succeeded? (Wittgenstein). Photo by Arminflickr/Flickr We live out our lives amid a world of language, in which we use words to do things. Ordinarily we don’t notice this; we just get on with it. But the way we use language affects how we live and who we can be. We are as if bewitched by the practices of saying that constitute our ways of going on in the world. If we want to change how things are, then we need to change the way we use words. But can language-games set us free? It was the maverick philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who…
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