Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding

Garry L. Hagberg
 is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA, and has also been Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include: 
Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and
 
Literary Knowledge
;
 Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory
; and 
Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness
. He is editor of 
Art and Ethical Criticism
 and of 
Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature
, co-editor of 
A Companion to the Philosophy of
 
Literature
, and Editor of the journal 
Philosophy and Literature
. He is presently writing a new book on the contribution literary experience makes to the formation of self and sensibility
, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.