Analytic philosophy and the later Wittgensteinian tradition / Paolo Tripodi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tripodi, Paolo, author.

Series:

History of analytic philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

xii, 267 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

"This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s, Oxford was the center of analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein - the later Wittgenstein - the most influential contemporary thinker within that philosophical tradition. Wittgenstein's methods and ideas were widely accepted, with everything seeming to point to the Wittgensteinian paradigm having a similar impact on the philosophical scenes of all English speaking countries. However, this was not to be the case. By the 1980s, albeit still important, Wittgenstein was considered as a somewhat marginal thinker. What occurred within the history of analytic philosophy to produce such a decline? This book expertly traces the early reception of Wittgenstein in the United States, the shift in the humanities to a tradition rooted in the natural sciences, and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, to reveal the factors that contributed to the eventual hostility towards the later Wittgensteinian tradition."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.

ISBN:

9781137499899

1137499893

OCLC:

1144766829