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UNINA9910814696803321 |
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Autore |
Lawn Chris |
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Wittgenstein and Gadamer : towards a post-analytic philosophy of language / Chris Lawn |
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London ; New York, : Continuum, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-4725-4786-1 |
1-4411-4607-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (180 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum studies in German philosophy |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University College Dublin |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-159) and index |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Language: Two Philosophical Traditions; 2 Gadamer and Wittgenstein: Contrasts and Commonalities; 3 Gadamer''s Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Ontology of Language; 4 Wittgenstein and the Logics of Language; 5 '' What has history to do with me?'': Language and / as Historicality; 6 A Competition of Interpretations: Wittgenstein and Gadamer Read Augustine; 7 Ordinary and Extraordinary Language: the Hermeneutics of the Poetic Word; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is the first comparative study of the pioneering work on language of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The book focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject-Philosophical Investigations and Truth and Method, respectively. Chris Lawn goes on to offer a critique of Wittgenstein's account of linguistic rules, drawing upon Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, particularly his emphasis upon tradition, temporality, historicality, and novelty. The text demonstrates how paying attention to such elements-excluded by Wittgenstein's conception of rules-in fact strengthens Wittgenstein's position from a hermeneutical perspective. Finally, Wittgenstein and Gadamer investigates the possibility of connection between Wittgenstein's focus upon lexical particularity and Gadamer's greater concern for the universal and the general. A groundbreaking work of |
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