Must we mean what we say?

Cambridge University Press

2000

xlii, 365 p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

9780521290487

Foreword: Audience for philosophy -- Must we mean what we say? -- Availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy -- Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy -- Austin at criticism -- Ending the waiting game: A reading of Beckett's Endgame -- Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation -- Music discomposed -- Matter of meaning it -- Knowing and acknowledging -- Avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear

The essays span and connect topics in the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and a criticism of literature, drama and music. This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies

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