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A holistic introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy that approaches him as a philosopher of ordinary life. One of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's most consequential claims was that the meaning of the word, its sense, is its use in language. This deceptively simple claim, the foundation of what became known as ordinary language philosophy, has animated thinkers across disciplinary bounds from metaphysics to ethics and more. In The Senses of Use, Sandra Laugier embarks on a fresh journey through Wittgenstein's corpus that emphasizes the place of ordinary life and language in its thought. Through his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, and rich posthumously published works, Laugier offers a compelling new look at Wittgenstein as a philosopher of mind.
Sandra Laugier
Sandra Laugier, a former student at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has also held a number of visiting professorships, including at Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, La Sapienza Roma and the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over thirty books, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020), TV-Philosophy (2023), Wittgenstein: The Senses of Use (2025). She is the main translator of Stanley Cavell’s work into French and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.
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