“Girl with a Book,” by Alexander Deineka (1934)
In “Caveat Lector: From Wittgenstein to The Philosophy of Reading,” Robert Hanna explores, against the grain of Analytic philosophy’s general avoidance of the fact or phenomenon of reading, and starting out with Wittgenstein’s compact sub-investigation in Philosophical Investigations into “the part the word [‘reading’] plays in our life, therewith the language-game in which we employ it,” the nature of reading, and thereby initiates what is in effect a new philosophical sub-discipline: the philosophy of reading.
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