Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Review essay-Toril Moi’s Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell, by Niklas Forsberg

Niklas Forsberg reviews Toril Moi’s Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell, published by University of Chicago Press (2017).

Article available through Philosophy Documentation Center, here.

Niklas Forsberg is Head of Research at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pardubice. He is the author of the monograph Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2013). He has also published several articles and essays, the most recent of which include “‘Taking the Linguistic Method Seriously’: On Iris Murdoch on Language and Linguistic Philosophy,” in Murdoch on Truth and Love, ed. Gary Browning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), “&c.: On Linguistic Regularity, Normativity and Language Acquisition,” in A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Pedagogical Investigations, ed. Michael A. Peters and Jeff Stickney (Springer, 2017), and “Thinking About a Word—Love, for Example,” Metaphilosophy (2017).

Niklas Forsberg, review of Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell, by Toril Moi, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39:2 (2019), pp. 549-63.

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