Wittgenstein's Tractatus : a dialectical interpretation / Matthew B. Ostrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostrow, Matthew B., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Tractatus logico-philosophicus.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wittgenstein once wrote that 'The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up until now has intangibly weighed down our consciousness'. Would Wittgenstein have been willing to describe the Tractatus as an attempt to find 'the liberating word'? This is the basic contention of this strikingly innovative 2002 study of the Tractatus. Matthew Ostrow argues that, far from seeking to offer a new theory in logic in the tradition of Frege and Russell, Wittgenstein from the very beginning viewed all such endeavors as the ensnarement of thought. Providing a lucid and systematic analysis of the Tractatus, he argues that Wittgenstein's ultimate aim is to put an end to philosophy itself. He also highlights the intrinsic obstacles to any kind of interpretation that claims to summarize Wittgenstein's thought.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I

I Pictures and logical atonism

II What is analysis?

III The essence of the proposition

IV The liberating word

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12494-8

1-280-41939-3

0-511-17543-4

0-511-04207-8

0-511-15579-4

0-511-30398-X

0-511-61324-5

0-511-04484-4

OCLC:

437063390