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Record Nr.

UNISA996213956503316

Titolo

Wittgenstein and his interpreters [[electronic resource] ] : essays in memory of Gordon Baker / / edited by Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-118-61062-8

1-281-06917-5

9786611069179

0-470-69096-8

0-470-76617-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Classificazione

08.25

Altri autori (Persone)

KahaneGuy <1971->

KanterianEdward

KuuselaOskari

Disciplina

192

193

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently opinionated Survey; 2 Wittgenstein's Method: Ridding People of Philosophical prejudices; 3 Gordon Baker's Late Interpretation of Wittgenstein; 4 The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations:  Style, Therapy, Nachlass; 5 Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on  Certain Uses of the Word 'Metaphysics'; 6 Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note on a Late Paper by Gordon Baker; 7 Wittgenstein and Transcendental Idealism

8 Simples and the Idea of Analysis in the Tractatus9 Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics in/and/of the  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; 10 The Uses of Wittgenstein's Beetle: Philosophical  Investigations 293 and Its Interpreters; 11 Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The Reception  of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics; 12 Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein.The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of WittgensteinWritten by leading experts from America, Britain, and EuropeProvides a much needed overview of the complex landscape o