[lit-ideas] Re: Who´s A Sissy Boy
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:45:21 -0800
J. L. writes
[Rorty] should forever praised for inventing the coinage to label
Grice´s >philosophy, ¨The linguistic turn¨. He also has a book on
the endless conversation >(cf. Vargas Llosa on the endless orgy).
Why he turned a Frog escapes me.
Well, hardly. The phrase 'the linguistic turn,' to mark a (then) new
direction in philosophy first appears in Gustav Bergmann's 'Logical
Positivism, Language, and the Recostruction of Metaphysics' (Rivista
Critica di Storia della Filosofia 8, 1953), where Bergmann says uses
it to denote what was shared by a number of early to mid-20th century
philosophers: 'all accept the linguistic turn Wittgenstein initiated
in the Tractatus.'
The article can be found at
www.hist-analytic.org/BergmannMLP.htm
Rorty used the phrase as the title of a collection of essays he edited
sometime in the 1960's. (His introduction is very good.)
Robert Paul
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