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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965051203321

Autore

Krkač Kristijan

Titolo

A custodian of grammar : essays on Wittgenstein's philosophical morphology / / Kristijan Krkač

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : University Press of America, 2012

ISBN

0-7618-9071-8

1-283-44702-9

9786613447029

0-7618-5653-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Language and languages

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Sources; Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein and Used Symbols; Introduction: Fighting windmills; Part One. WITTGENSTEIN AND PHILOSOPHICAL MORPHOLOGY; Chapter One. Philosophical Morphology Primer; Chapter Two. Wittgenstein the Morphologist I: Perspicuous presentation (with Josip Lukin); Chapter Three. Wittgenstein the Morphologist II: Do not think, but look!; Chapter Four. Wittgenstein the Morphologist III: A Form of Life is a Form of Culture (with Josip Lukin); Part Two. THREE APPLICATIONS-CONSCIOUSNESS, CERTAINTY, AND RELIGION

Chapter Five. The Nature of Consciousness: Living human beings (with Josip Lukin)Chapter Six. Anti-Sceptical Weapons I: Smells like pragmatism; Chapter Seven. Anti-Sceptical Weapons II: Hinges, gyroscopes, and planets; Chapter Eight. Anti-Sceptical Weapons III: Life and religion are full of colours; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. This text discusses his philosophical method in his later period, sometimes referred to as morphology.