Where of we cannot speak, there of we must sing

This article deals with the proposal, by the early-Wittgenstein, that we avoid antinomies by excluding talk about talk. Given that such a policy is in its very character controversial, we consider whether antimonies might not be better dealt with by a shift from the sphere of epistemology to that of aesthetics. To this end we develop some of the principles of Wittgensteinian aesthetics, taking in the whole of Wittgenstein's work, both early and late, and its roots in German idealism. Key themes are an analogy between Hegel's and Wittgenstein's (later) approach to contradiction, and an analysis of Hegel's thesis according to which beauty is the sensuous manifestation of truth.