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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Wittgensteinian notion of album as a paradigm of comprehension : a manuscript's study.

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

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211215

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2011 - 2012

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The Wittgenstein Archives are hosted by the University of Bergen. These archives are unique and have made an outstanding contribution to the Wittgensteinian Studies, They are part of the development of electronic and web-based editions of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, providing many scholars in that field the opportunity to question the relation of that collection of manuscripts to the selections the previous trustees eventually edited. The Archives have been a precious support for questioning the problem of the availability of Wittgenstein's works, and they have fostered new modes of collective thinking. In Bergen, my own research will focus on how the foreword to the Philosophical Investigations is understood and more specifically on two questions it rais es that I believe are connected, that of the album and that of the precipitate. The lack of interest in this text and these questions has steered Wittgensteinian studies in a single direction. I will address the question of the understanding of Wittgenst ein's own comprehension of his work, and how treatment is binded to practice within its comprehension, connected under the species of a paradigm he refered to as an album. In that prospect, the research environment the Wittgenstein Archives and Bergen U niversity's Philosophy department offers is matchless. A ten months stay in Bergen will give me the opportunity not only to precise my thesis on the ground of the manuscripts, preparing my Phd's defence, but also to discuss and work together with the Berg en University and Wittgenstein's Archives staff on how a paradigm of comprehension such as the album may support a digital humanities ontology, and the collective thinking such an issue breeds.

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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu