Nothing Hidden

ABSTRACT:This paper discovers in the work of Jasper Johns, Edgar Allen Poe, and Michel Foucault a joint opposition to there being something hidden. Although someone may hide your present before the party, I mean to deny that there is anything hidden the superlative way logic was hidden in the Tractatus or the attenuated way painting was hidden for Michael Fried or the human for Stanley Cavell. In his mature writings, Wittgenstein sought a momentary peaceful healing of what we say and what we see. Now I can go on. Now it’s a Rabbit. But if nothing is hidden, the hope of philosophy might be to unbind what we see from what we say, to find a way to sink into the uregulated sensuality of things and the things-which-are-words: enjoying playing.