উইটগেনস্টাইন, ডেরিডা এবং পোস্টমডার্ন দর্শনের আলোকে ভাষা-খেলা এবং বাস্তবতা
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025 | ||
Received: 09.10.2025 | Accepted: 22.10.2025 | |||
Published Online: 31.10.2025 | Page No: 25-31 | |||
DOI: 10.64031/pratidhwanitheecho.vol.14.issue.01W.028 | ||||
উইটগেনস্টাইন, ডেরিডা এবং পোস্টমডার্ন
দর্শনের আলোকে ভাষা-খেলা এবং বাস্তবতা
রোজিনা খাতুন,গবেষক, দর্শন বিভাগ, বর্ধমান বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত | |
Language-Game and Reality in the Light of Wittgenstein, Derrida and Postmodern Philosophy Rojina Khatun, Research Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India | |
This research paper re-analyzes the relationship
between language, meaning and reality, particularly in light of the
philosophical ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Derrida, which have had
a profound influence on subsequent postmodern philosophy. In his book ‘Philosophical
Investigations’, Wittgenstein through the concept of “language games”,
wanted to explain that the meaning of language is not a direct reference to a
specific object or experience, but is determined by its practical context. He showed that language is
part of human life, and that it functions differently in different social
contexts. That is the meaning of language is determined by the rules and
context of language use. On the other hand, Jacques Derrida, through his theory of
deconstruction, questioned the permanence, meaning, and center within language. According to Derrida's
concept of “différance,” language is a structure in which meaning is indeterminate and
always delayed. This view presents an uncertain and multidimensional form of
reality, in which truth or knowledge is not singular and definite. Based on the ideas of these
two philosophers, postmodernism has become a broader philosophical and cultural
movement that rejects fixed definitions of language and reality. Here, reality is a continuous
construction, formed within language, and does not represent any specific
truth. In the postmodern view, truth
and meaning are relative, multiple, and constructed within social and cultural
contexts. As a result, language becomes the only way to understand and
construct reality. This article mainly analyzes how Wittgenstein's concept
of language-games and Derrida's theory of deconstruction have helped to rethink
the relationship between language and reality, and how these theories have served
as the main philosophical foundations of postmodernism. This research article
attempts to highlight the complexity and uncertainty of constructing reality
through language and will inspire the reader to think in a new way that truth
and reality are not actually fixed, but rather a dynamic experience formed through
the continuous play of language. The three main pillars of this research
article are: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, and Postmodern thinkers. Each of them analyzed the
relationship between language and reality differently and revolutionized modern
epistemology. | |
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