Acknowledgement
Foreword: An audience for philosophy
I. Must we mean what we say? 1
II. The availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy 44
III. Aesthetich problems of modern philosophy 73
IV. Austin at criticism 97
V. Ending the Wating game: a reading of Beckett's endgame 115
VI. Kierkegaard;s on authority and revelation 163
VII. Music diccomposed 180
VIII. A matter of meaning it 213
IX. Knowing and acknowdging 238
X. The avoidance of love: a reading of king lear 267
Thematic Index 357
Indexs of names 363