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Author | : Russell Nieli |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-01-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438414714 |
Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language presents the Tractatus as a work of mystic theology intended to direct the reader to a transcendental plane from which human existence can be viewed from the divine perspective. More than any other work on Wittgenstein, this study integrates text material with personal biographical information, especially information dealing with his spiritual and psychological states. The result is a fresh, coherent, and extremely illuminating picture of Wittgenstein, successfully avoiding the pitfalls of either psychological reductionism or unfaithfulness to the text. It is bold without being reckless, passionately argued without being doctrinaire, and makes a very powerful and persuasive case for its main thesis.
Author | : Jose Medina |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2002-07-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791453889 |
Explores the stable core of Wittgenstein's philosophy as developed from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations.
Author | : Marjorie Perloff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226660608 |
Austere and uncompromising, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had no use for the avant-garde art works of his own time. He refused to formulate an aesthetic, declaring that one can no more define the "beautiful" than determine "what sort of coffee tastes good". And yet many of the writers of our time have understood, as academic theorists generally have not, that Wittgenstein is "their" philosopher. How do we resolve this paradox? Marjorie Perloff, our foremost critic of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein has provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Wittgenstein's ladder is an apt figure for this radical aesthetic, and not just in its ordinariness as an object. The movement "up" this ladder can never be more than what Wittgenstein's contemporary, Gertrude Stein, called "Beginning again and again". Wittgenstein shows us, too, that we cannot climb the same ladder twice: the use of language, the context in which words and sentences appear, defines their meaning, which changes with every repetition. Wittgenstein's aesthetic brooks no theory, no essentialism, no metalanguage - only a practice, a mode of operation, fragmentary and elliptical.
Author | : B.R. Tilghman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1349211745 |
The author's purpose in this volume is to present the relevance of the ideas of Wittgenstein to those interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He focuses on both the earlier work centred around the "Tractatus" and the later work of the "Philosophical Investigations".
Author | : Gordon C.F. Bearn |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997-01-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791430309 |
The central claim of this book is that, early and late, Wittgenstein modelled his approach to existential meaning on his account of linguistic meaning. A reading of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy sets up Bearn's reading of the existential point of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Bearn argues that both books try to resolve our anxiety about the meaning of life by appeal to the deep, unutterable essence of the world. Bearn argues that as Wittgenstein's and Nietzsche's thought matured, they both separately came to believe that the answer to our existential anxiety does not lie beneath the surfaces of our lives, but in our acceptance--Nietzsche's "Yes"--of the groundless details of those surfaces themselves: the wonder of the ordinary
Author | : Ulrich Arnswald |
Publisher | : KIT Scientific Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Aufsatzsammlung |
ISBN | : 3866442181 |
The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethical and religious thought and language will not be achieved by metaphysical theories expounded from such a point of view, but by focusing on our everyday forms of expression.
Author | : Hanne Appelqvist |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351202650 |
The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.
Author | : Richard H. Jones |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438461208 |
This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones's inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism.
Author | : Stuart Shanker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317682432 |
Wittgenstein’s Intentions, first published in 1993, presents a series of essays dedicated to the great Wittgenstein exegete John Hunter. The problematic topics discussed are identified not only by Wittgenstein’s own philosophical writings, but also by contemporary scholarship: areas of ambiguity, perhaps even confusion, as well as issues which the father of analytic philosophy did not himself address. The difficulties involved in speaking cogently about religious belief, suspicion, consciousness, the nature of the will, the coincidence of our thoughts with reality, and transfinite numbers are all investigated, as well as a variety of other intriguing questions: why can’t a baby pretend to smile? How do I know what I was going to say? Wittgenstein’s Intentions is an invaluable resource for students of Wittgenstein as well as scholars, and opens up a wide horizon of philosophical questioning for those as yet unfamiliar with this style of reasoning.
Author | : Alice Crary |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134689969 |
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.