Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic : Investigations after Wittgenstein / Christian Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Christian, editor.

Series:

On Wittgenstein ; Volume 4.

On Wittgenstein ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Life.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein's approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein's earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein's notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Form of Our Life with Language / Martin, Christian

Paths to Form(s) of Life

The Rule of the Game (The Moment of Truth) / Travis, Charles

Lebensformen: Living Logic / Floyd, Juliet

Human Life and Self-consciousness. The Idea of 'Our' Form of Life in Hegel and Wittgenstein / Kern, Andrea

Duality, Force, Language-games and Our Form of Life / Martin, Christian

Form(s) of Life: the Very Idea

Our Life with Truth / Benoist, Jocelyn

Language-games, Lebensform, and the Ancient City / Gustafsson, Martin

Language-games and Forms of Life in Mathematics / Mühlhölzer, Felix

The Representation of Language / Haase, Matthias

Form(s) of Life after Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying / Baz, Avner

Wittgenstein. Ordinary Language as Lifeform / Laugier, Sandra

Hostage to a Stranger / Zapero, David

Biographical Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9783110517392

3110517396

9783110518283

3110518287

OCLC:

1054868331