New Wittgenstein

Name: New Wittgenstein
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ISBN: 9780415173193

ISBN-10: 0415173191

ISBN-13: 9780415173193

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alice Marguerite Crary, Rupert J. Read

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Presenting a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein, these essays clarify his modes of philosophical criticism and shed light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical traditions and areas of human concern.

Book details

List price: $55.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/27/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Wittgenstein's later writings: the illusory comfort of an external standpoint



Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language




Non-cognitivism and rule-following




Wittgenstein on rules and platonism




What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean




Wittgenstein on deconstruction




Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought




The Tractatus as forerunner of Wittgenstein's later writings



Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus




Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein




Rethinking mathematical necessity




Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy




Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the Tractatus




How to do things with wood: Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought




Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein



A dissenting voice



Was he trying to whistle it?



Bibliography


Index