El cuerpo sutil del lenguaje y el sentido perdido de la filosofía*

Abstract

“The Subtle Body of Language and the Lost Sense of Philosophy”. This paper develops the ideas that underlie Wittgenstein’s philosophical work, at least since the Philosophical Investigations, of language as something animal and words as mainly expressive. I begin by arguing that, for Wittgenstein, philosophical problems are finally the result of a disconnection from the sensible dimension, whence our words derive their sense. It is suggested that Wittgenstein’s aim is to exemplify, and hence to propitiate in his texts a different relationship with words than that which determines conventional philosophical thinking. He thus rehabilitates for philosophy modes of knowing and of consciousness that are radically opposed to the kind of scientific knowledge with which it is still identified.