Bücher von Wolfram Pichler

Im Zuge des iconic turn hat sich Bildtheorie als Grundlage der Kulturwissenschaften etabliert. Die Reflexion über Bilder, die das westliche Denken seit Plato nicht nur in der Philosophie, sondern auch in zahlreichen anderen Disziplinen begleitet, bildet heute ein eigenes Gebiet der begrifflichen Arbeit. Diese Einführung orientiert in einem unübersichtlichen Terrain, indem sie die bildtheoretische Diskussion ausgehend von vier Leitfragen sichtet: Was verbindet Bilder mit dem Erkennen? Aus welchen Elementen bestehen Bilder? Welche Funktion kommt Bildern zu? Und zuletzt: Können Bilder verneinen und Kritik üben? Zu den vorgestellten Autoren gehören u.a. Aby Warburg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Meyer Schapiro, Jacques Lacan, Ernst Gombrich, Nelson Goodman, Richard Wollheim, Hans Belting, Gottfried Boehm, Horst Bredekamp, Wolfgang Kemp, David Summers und Whitney Davis.

What is an image? How can we describe the experience of looking at images, and how do they become meaningful to us? In what sense are images like or unlike propositions? Participants of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium--philosophers as well as historians of art, science, and literature--provide many stimulating answers. Some of the contributions are dedicated to Wittgensteins thoughts on images while others testify to the important role notions coined or inspired by Wittgenstein--seeing as, picture games and the dichotomy of saying and showing--play in the field of picture theory today. This first volume of the Proceedings of the 2010 conference addresses readers interested in the history and theory of images, and in the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of communication and cognition. Indeed, today the production of all kinds of text (including this one) is mediated by diagrammatic tools to be found on computer desktops. Not surprisingly, then, diagrams have become the object of much historical and theoretical work. This book--volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium--is dedicated to this quickly growing field of interdisciplinary research. It includes contributions from philosophy, sociology (space syntax), art history, and history of science. Historically, there is a focus on Otto Neurath and his famous visual language (ISOTYPE), while the new attempts at theorizing diagrams presented here are mainly inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and Ludwig Wittgenstein.