Wittgenstein and Gadamer : Towards a Post-Analytic Philosophy of Language

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawn, Chris.

Series:

Continuum Studies in British Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Local Subjects:

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007.

Summary:

The book focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject - Philosophical Investigations and Truth and Method, respectively. Chris Lawn goes on to offer a critique of Wittgenstein''s account of linguistic rules, drawing upon Gadamer''s philosophical hermeneutics, particularly his emphasis upon tradition, temporality, historicality and novelty. The text demonstrates how paying attention to such elements - excluded by Wittgenstein''s conception of rules - in fact strengthens Wittgenstein''s position from a her

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Language: Two Philosophical Traditions; 2 Gadamer and Wittgenstein: Contrasts and Commonalities; 3 Gadamer''s Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Ontology of Language; 4 Wittgenstein and the Logics of Language; 5 '' What has history to do with me?'': Language and / as Historicality; 6 A Competition of Interpretations: Wittgenstein and Gadamer Read Augustine; 7 Ordinary and Extraordinary Language: the Hermeneutics of the Poetic Word; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4411-9910-1