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4 - The Touch of Words
- By Stanley Cavell
Edited by William Day, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, Victor J. Krebs
Book:

Seeing Wittgenstein Anew

Published online:

05 June 2012

Print publication:

15 March 2010, pp 81-98
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The principal phenomenon Cora Diamond considers in one of her texts is that of understanding our relation to the non-human world of animals, most extendedly the relation or relations in the mass preparation of animals as food for humans, and she approaches it importantly through her responses to a pair of stories by J. M. Coetzee. Coetzee is careful to have various characters voice their disapproval, to put it mildly, of Costello's comparison of the business of mass animal butchery with the Nazi organization of the gassing and burning of Jews. She says, speaking of her concealed and unconcealed wound, that "it is touched on in every word I speak". A striking idea among Wittgenstein's remarks about seeing aspects is his saying that the importance of the concept lies in its connection with experiencing the meaning of a word and with our attachment to our words.