Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Must we mean what we say?; 2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy; 4. Austin at criticism; 5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame; 6. Kierkegaard's On authority and revelation; 7. Music discomposed; 8. A matter of meaning it; 9. Knowing and acknowledging; 10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; Thematic index; Index of names.

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Topics in the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and a criticism of literature, drama and music.