Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations, SSSS 243-315

Contents 8 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction: Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics of Austerity 10 1. Wittgenstein’s Monologuists 25 2. A Child is Crying 32 3. Wittgenstein’s Cloud: Of Unknowing 50 4. Privacy, Patience, and Pictures: First Methodological Interlude 63 5. Cavell’s Corsican Brothers 77 6. Wittgenstein’s Semi-Colon: Second Methodological Interlude 98 7. Wittgenstein’s Diarist: Three Readings 105 8. Excursus: Cavell’s Mezuzah 117 9. Wittgenstein’s Gift (Of Grammatical Imagination): Pots and Dolls, Stones and Flies 120 10. The Human Manometer 133 Coda: Wittgenstein’s Beetle 142 Bibliography 153 Index 156 A 156 B 156 C 156 D 156 E 156 F 156 G 156 H 156 I 156 K 156 L 156 M 156 N 156 O 156 P 156 R 157 S 157 T 157 W 157 Z 157