The new Wittgenstein / edited by Alice Crary and Rupert Read.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crary, Alice, 1967-

Read, Rupert J., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A stellar collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein and sheds light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical positions and areas of human concern.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Wittgenstein's later writings: the illusory comfort of an external standpoint; Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language; Non-cognitivism and rule-following; Wittgenstein on rules and platonism; What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean; Wittgenstein on deconstruction; Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought; The Tractatus as forerunner of Wittgenstein's later writings; Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein Rethinking mathematical necessity; Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy; Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the Tractatus; How to do things with wood: Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought; Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein; A dissenting voice; Was he trying to whistle it?; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-394) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68995-0

0-585-45260-1

0-203-44940-1

1-280-05727-0

1-134-68996-9

9780203449400

OCLC:

52694429