Wittgenstein and Justice : On the Significance of Ludwig Witgenstein for Social and Political Thought / Hanna Fenichel Pitkin.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.
- Contents:
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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- I. Introduction
- II. Wittgenstein's Two Visions of Language
- III. Language Learning and Meaning
- IV. Context, Sense, and Concepts
- V. The Problem of Words and the World
- VI. Grammar and Forms of Life
- VII. Language Regions, Moral Discourse, and Action
- VIII. Justice: Socrates and Thrasymachus
- IX. Membership, the Social, and the Political
- X. Judgment
- XI. Action and the Problem of Social Science
- XII. Explanation, Freedom, and the Concepts of Social Science
- XIII. Philosophy and the Study of Political Theory
- XIV. Political Theory and the Modern Predicament
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
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- OCLC:
- 1224278369
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