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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783951303321

Titolo

The new Wittgenstein / / edited by Alice Crary and Rupert Read

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-68995-0

0-585-45260-1

0-203-44940-1

1-280-05727-0

1-134-68996-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CraryAlice <1967->

ReadRupert J. <1966->

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 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

Sommario/riassunto

A stellar collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein and sheds light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical positions and areas of human



concern.