Too Cavellian a Wittgenstein : Wittgenstein's Certainty, Cavell's Scepticism

Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele (2017) Too Cavellian a Wittgenstein : Wittgenstein's Certainty, Cavell's Scepticism. In: Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism :. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. ISBN 9781501302442
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My aim in this chapter is to show that Cavell's modernist Wittgenstein is too Cavellian. Wittgenstein's philosophy is not – as Cavell claims it is – permeated with (1) a nostalgia for metaphysics; (2) a dissatisfaction with language and criteria; (3) an ineluctable scepticism; all prompting (4) Existential devastation and angst. I will conclude that Cavell reads his own preoccupations into Wittgenstein and that this prevents him from seeing that Wittgenstein's certainty logically dismisses scepticism. Cavell's Wittgenstein is still a groundbreaking philosopher, but seen through Cavell's modernist glass darkly, his philosophy breeds disappointment, alienation and scepticism where it, in fact, sows enlightenment, community and certainty.

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