A confusion of the spheres : Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on philosophy and religion / Genia Schonbaumsfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schönbaumsfeld, Genia, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 213 pages)

Other Title:

Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on philosophy and religion

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Sch--ouml--;nbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conceptions of philosophy and religious belief.Chapter one documents Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, those by D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In cha

Contents:

Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein's thought

The point of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's philosophical authorship

Sense and ineffabilia

Kierkegaard and the Tractatus

A confusion of the spheres

Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conception of religious belief.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-210) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-15024-X

9786611150242

0-19-152803-X

1-4356-2198-0

OCLC:

712015959