Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Ph. D Student of Philosophy of Art, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University.
Abstract
Family resemblance has sub-concepts that we can use in contemporary aesthetics by analyzing them. Wittgenstein considered language games as a culture, and this concept in his philosophy is contrary to essentialism and also contains thought and meaning. He criticizes the desire for totality. Family resemblance is a set of games, and metaphor is a type of family resemblance and is related to real names. Samuel Beckett, with a reading of Wittgenstein's concepts, especially family resemblance in its application in the play, testified that these concepts can be expanded in the performing arts, and this research, while confirming this hypothesis, also answers the question of whether the philosophical concepts of the late Wittgenstein are applicable in the performing arts? And can language games, metaphor, use of meaning; psychological language games, worldview and private language be used in dramatic works? This research, using a library research method and a descriptive-analytical method, analyzed three plays by Samuel Beckett, namely "Waiting for Godot", "Endgame" and "The Krapp s last Tape" and examined the concepts of waiting, meaning, fatherhood and loneliness and by linking it with the concept of "family resemblance" by the analytical philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.it reached that Samuel Beckett's plays can be analyzed with the concepts of analytical philosophy.
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