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(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein

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ISBN-10: 1402013272

ISBN-13: 9781402013270

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anat Biletzki

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(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy. It will intrigue readers interested in issues of interpretation and cultural studies. This book tells the story - as yet untold - of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the (socio-cultural rather than psychological) motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. As a cultural history of ideas, it traces the parallelism…    
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Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 7/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 237
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Tamara Jacka is Fellow, Gender Relations Center, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She is the author of Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform.She lives in Canberra, Australia. Arianne M. Gaetano is an advanced doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Southern California. She currently resides in Massachusetts.Tamara Jacka is Fellow, Gender Relations Center, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She is the author of Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform.She lives in Canberra, Australia. Arianne M. Gaetano is an advanced doctoral…    

Preface
Introduction
On Interpretation
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
The Standard Interpretation
The First Station: Logico-Linguistic (Anti-)Metaphysics
The Second Station: Sophisticated Metaphysics (and Meaning as Use)
The Third Station: Reasonable Meta-Readings
The Fourth Station: Taking Nonsense Seriously
The Fifth Station: Over the Deep End, Or the Ethical Reading
Off the Mainline: Non-Standard Issues
Mathematics
Religion
Social Science
Social Science
Going Continental
Going Diverse
Idolatry and Fashion
Notes
References
Index of Names