Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy
Author(s)
Mills, Philip
Collection
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Language
EnglishAbstract
How can Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) help us understand poetry? Against John L. Austin’s exclusion of poetic utterances as parasitical, Philip Mills explores how contemporary poetics broadens the aims and scope of OLP. Through the analysis of French and American poetry that reinterprets notions such as illocution, perlocution, and language-games, Mills develops a poetic philosophy of language, revealing its viral and transformative nature. Poetry, Performativity, and Ordinary Language Philosophy bridges philosophy and poetry, showing how poetry contaminates and reshapes our ways of thinking and being in the world, and combining the poetic and the ethical in the notion of ‘poethics.’ This Open Access book offers a new perspective on the poetic and literary potential of OLP and the intersections between the philosophy of language and poetry.
Keywords
Ordinary language philosophy; Wittgenstein; Austin; French literature; autotheory; Cavell; Contemporary Poetry; Philosophy of language; Literary TheoryDOI
10.1007/978-3-031-78615-0ISBN
9783031786150, 9783031786143, 9783031786150Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2025Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanClassification
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Philosophy of language
Literary studies: poetry and poets