Alice Crary / Rupert Read (eds.)

The New Wittgenstein

Herausgeber: Crary, Alice; Read, Rupert

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Produktbeschreibung

"The New Wittgenstein" offers a major reevaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. This stellar collection of original essays by the "third wave" of Wittgenstein critics presents a significantly different portrait of the philosopher, not as a proponent of metaphysical theories but as an advocate of philosophy as therapy--a means of helping us grasp the essence of thought and language by attending to our everyday forms of expression. Boldly criticizing standard interpretations and offering unorthodox perspectives, these controversial essays will change the way we look at Wittgenstein's entire body of work. Contributors: Stanley Cavell, David Cerbone, James Conant, Alice Crary, Cora Diamond, David Finkelstein, Juliette Floyd, P.M.S. Hacker, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, Rupert Read, Martin Stone, Edward Witherspoon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 186mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780415173186
• ISBN-10: 0415173183
• Artikelnr.: 22369060

Autorenporträt

Alice Crary is a Tutor in Philosophy at Harvard University. Rupert Read is a Lecturer in Philosophy at The University of East Anglia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I Wittgenstein's later writings: the illusory comfort of
an external standpoint 1 Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language 2
Non-cognitivism and rule-following 3 Wittgenstein on rules and platonism 4
What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could
possibly mean 5 Wittgenstein on deconstruction 6 Wittgenstein's philosophy
in relation to political thought PART II The Tractatus as forerunner of
Wittgenstein's later writings 7 Ethics, imagination and the method of
Wittgenstein's Tractatus 8 Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early
Wittgenstein 9 Rethinking mathematical necessity 10 Wittgenstein,
mathematics and philosophy 11 Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The
private language argument in the Tractatus 12 How to do things with wood:
Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought 13 Conceptions of
nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein A dissenting voice 14 Was he trying to
whistle it?