ABSTRACT
This chapter is in some ways the heart of the book. It focuses on an entire and central sequence in the heart of Wittgenstein’s consideration of how to conceive of and practise (liberatory) Philosophy. It works through ideas such as “everyday” and “perspicuity” which are then relied on in subsequent portions of the book.
In this chapter, Rupert Read endeavours to explicate how, despite some appearances to the contrary, this central sequence of Wittgenstein’s ‘on philosophy’ need not be read as embodying theses, no matter of what kind (in particular, not about philosophy). These remarks rather function as routes for ‘returning’ one to (ordinary) language. For example, to certain uses, that we can see-as ordinary of terms such as “ordinary” or “everyday”… This helps one to realise how radical is Wittgenstein’s aim: to escape the elitism of philosophy’s standard setting itself up in judgement over the ordinary (This thematic of the chapter thus directly extends the non-accountative or non-expertise-based logic of Chapter 3).
