Wittgenstein and his interpreters : essays in memory of Gordon Baker / edited by Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian and Oskari Kuusela.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahane, Guy, 1971-

Kanterian, Edward.

Kuusela, Oskari.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

xiv, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Summary:

Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. Reflecting a range of different perspectives, some contributions offer an historical overview, mapping different schools and approaches to Wittgenstein interpretation. Others consider questions of methodology and style, or examine and shed new light on seminal controversies. Taken together, the essays provide a much needed overview of the complex landscape of both Wittgenstein exegesis and Wittgensteinian approaches to philosophy and will serve as an essential resource and guide for both students and scholars.

Contents:

Perspectives on Wittgenstein : an intermittently opinionated survey / Hans-Johann Glock

Wittgenstein's method : ridding people of philosophical prejudices / Katherine Morris

Gordon Baker's late interpretation of Wittgenstein / P. M. S. Hacker

The interpretation of the philosophical investigations : style, therapy, nachlass / Alois Pichler

Ways of reading Wittgenstein : observations on certain uses of the word 'Metaphysics' / Joachim Schulte

Metaphysical/everyday use : a note on a late paper by Gordon Baker / Hilary Putnam

Wittgenstein and transcendental idealism / A. W. Moore

Simples and the idea of analysis in the Tractatus / Marie McGinn

Words, waxing and waning : ethics in/and/of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus / Stephen Mulhall

The uses of Wittgenstein's beetle : philosophical investigations [section] 293 and its interpreters / David G. Stern

Bourgeois, bolshevist or anarchist? : the reception of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics / Ray Monk

Wittgenstein and ethical naturalism / Alice Crary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-344) and indexes.

ISBN:

1405129220

9781405129220

OCLC:

79003201