Unintentional investigations: Truth in drama and “all that ‘ordinary’ in the phrase ‘ordinary language philosophy’ means”

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14782103211031412" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14782103211031412</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14782103211031412" target="_blank" >10.1177/14782103211031412</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unintentional investigations: Truth in drama and “all that ‘ordinary’ in the phrase ‘ordinary language philosophy’ means”

Original language description

This paper explores the notion of truth in relation to literature. It opens with a critical exposition of some dominant tendencies in contemporary aesthetics, in which narrow views of truth and reference guide the aesthetic investigations in harmful ways. One of the problems with such as view is not merely that it becomes difficult to talk about truth in art, but that it also makes the idea that we can learn something from literature problematic. The effort of this paper is thus to open up for a variety of notions of truth, that are not immediately tied to the notion of representation or correspondence. We need a way of talking about truth in art. The effort to explore a notion of truth in art that is not tied to narrow views about reference, and which broadens our sense of &quot;&quot;aboutness&quot;&quot; goes, in this paper, via a reading of Harold Pinter&apos;s Nobel Lecture from 2005, together with some reflections inspired by some of Stanely Cavell&apos;s reflections about the relevance of reflecting upon ordinary language. It is argued that literature engages in a form of conceptual reflection, by means of making the sense of our concepts clear and by challenging philosophical preconceptions about what our concepts must mean. What we can learn from art is thus not necessarily toed to either representation or authorial intent, but comes into view by means of the literary exercises that often (but certainly not always) require a conceptual sensitivity; that is, by means of careful attention to what words mean and what follows from them in specific contexts of use.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Policy Futures in Education

ISSN

1478-2103

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

0 (0)

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1–15

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000679488000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85111749747