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Autore |
Tripodi Paolo |
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Titolo |
Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition / / by Paolo Tripodi |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 pages) |
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Collana |
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History of Analytic Philosophy, , 2634-5994 |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages—Philosophy |
Philosophy |
Analysis (Philosophy) |
Philosophy of Language |
History of Philosophy |
Analytic Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. From the Golden Age to the Decline -- 2. The Core and the Periphery -- 3. Carnapstein in America -- 4. Rigourism in the Humanities -- 5. Science, Philosophy and the Mind -- 6. Necessity, Style and Metaphilosophy -- 7. Concluding Remarks: The Last Decades. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s, Oxford was the center of analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein – the later Wittgenstein – the most influential contemporary thinker within that philosophical tradition. Wittgenstein's methods and ideas were widely accepted, with everything seeming to point to the Wittgensteinian paradigm having a similar impact on the philosophical scenes of all English speaking countries. However, this was not to be the case. By the 1980s, albeit still important, Wittgenstein was considered as a somewhat marginal thinker. What occurred within the history of analytic philosophy to produce such a decline? This book expertly traces the early reception of Wittgenstein in the United States, the shift in the humanities to a |
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tradition rooted in the natural sciences, and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, to reveal the factors that contributed to the eventual hostility towards the later Wittgensteinian tradition. |
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