On Wittgenstein’s Notion of a Surveyable Representation: Rituals, Aesthetics, and Aspect-Perception

I demonstrate that analogies, both explicit and implicit, between Wittgenstein’s discussions of rituals, aesthetics, aspect-perception have important payoffs in terms understanding his notion a ‘surveyable representation’ (übersichtliche Darstellung) as it applies to phenomena are not exclusively grammatical nature. In particular, argue surveyable representation various anthropological aesthetic facts allows us see, qua form aspect-perception, internal relations formal connections, so the inner nature ritual or solution an puzzle is exhibited. This particular seeing explains why Wittgenstein thought hypothetical explanations about origins irrelevant appreciating its meaning elucidates which involves ‘internal relations’ ‘formal connections’. The upshots account for work anthropology discussed.