Abstract

SALLES, João Carlos. Tópicos [online]. 2017, n.34, pp.95-120. ISSN 1666-485X.

The Remarks on Color have not had its deserved prominence, for they seem like a partially amorphous and disconnected set, with a precarious structure as a whole. This is due, to a great extent, to the state of the texts edition carried out by G. E. M. Anscombe. Her edition ignores variants, makes mistaken suggestions to the dating of the manuscripts, suppresses paragraphs (including a fourth part), in addition to disfiguring Part II, sorting out those paragraphs erroneously. A thoroughly prepared edition is necessary to the recuperation of its interpretative keys, allowing for a clear reading script. Thus, Part II is soon presented as a project for treatment of grammatical propositions about colors, followed by an extensive and rich material on Part III, to be read jointly with Part IV. So, as a whole, those parts set the basis for a well elaborated Part I, which synthesizes the main previous problems and, clearly, shows the deepest reasons for the failure in Goethe's phenomenological analyzes and, therefore, in the whole phenomenology that is intended as a permanent science of the concept of color, or that, in regards to other themes, intends to universalize the "mathematics" specific to a particular usage.

Keywords : Wittgenstein; Goethe; Chromatic models; Phenomenology; Necessity.

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