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| Author | : Ray Monk |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 547 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9788433907738 |
La obra de Ludwig Wittgenstein es el producto de un pensamiento riguroso y de una imaginacin brillante, y slo puede ser comprendida en todo su alcance analizando la relacin entre su filosofa y su vida. Wittgenstein naci en 1889, hijo de una de las ms acaudaladas y cultas familias de Viena, de origen judo pero convertidos al catolicismo, y cuyos miembros eran triunfadores o suicidas; en esta compleja matriz familiar podemos rastrear el origen de su intensa y siempre presente preocupacin por problemas ticos, espirituales y culturales.Su trayectoria como filsofo comienza tras su encuentro con Bertrand Russell en Cambridge, y su trabajo en esta universidad culmina en el Tractatus Logico -Philosophicus, celebrado en la actualidad por los positivistas lgicos, quienes a veces nos hacen olvidar su intenso contenido mstico. Wittgenstein termin esta obra al final de la Primera Guerra Mundial, contienda en la que su experiencia como soldado le enfrent al sufrimiento humano en una escala tal que le marc para siempre. Convencido de que su libro haba resuelto todos los problemas tradicionales del objeto de su investigacin, abandon la filosofa y se dedic a la enseanza en escuelas rurales de Austria, donde se vio envuelto en serias dificultades de ndole profesional y personal.Tena ya ms de cuarenta aos cuando decidi regresar a la vida acadmica y a la filosofa. La radical reelaboracin de su pensamiento anterior, cristalizada en la obra publicada despus de su muerte con el ttulo de Investigaciones filosficas, ha ejercido una influencia decisiva en la filosofa actual.Ray Monk, saludado por la crtica como un renovador del gnero biogrfico, ha podido consultar por primera vez los archivos de Wittgenstein,sus papeles y sus diarios, escritos en cdigo, y que despejan las incgnitas sobre la misti
| Author | : Stuart Brown |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 1246 |
| Release | : 2005-06-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1441192417 |
This is a two-volume work with entries on individuals who made some contribution to philosophy in the period 1900 to 1960 or soon after. The entries deal with the whole philosophical work of an individual or, in the case of philosophers still living, their whole work to date. Typically the individuals included have been born by 1935 and by now have made their main contributions. Contributions to the subject typically take the form of books or journal articles, but influential teachers and people otherwise important in the world of philosophy may also be included. The dictionary includes amateurs as well as professional philosophers and, where appropriate, thinkers whose main discipline was outside philosophy. There are special problems about the term "British" in the twentieth century, partly because of human migration, partly because of decolonialization and the changing denotation of the term. The intention has been to include not only those who were British subjects at least for a significant part of their lives (even if they mostly lived outside what is now the U.K.) but also people who spent a significant part of their lives in Britain itself, irrespective of their nationality or country of origin. In the first category are included, for instance, a number of people who were born and educated in Britain but who subsequently taught in universities abroad. In the second category are included those who were born elsewhere but who came to Britain and contributed to its philosophical culture.
| Author | : Daniel M. Haybron |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2013-08-29 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191654329 |
Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its importance in our lives, and how we can (and should) pursue it, he considers the current thinking on happiness, from psychology to philosophy. Illustrating the diverse routes to happiness, Haybron reflects on contemporary ideas about the pursuit of a good life and considers the influence of social context on our satisfaction and well-being. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
| Author | : Ray Monk |
| Publisher | : Granta Books |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2019-03-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1783785713 |
Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that of his peers and makes the question of how to read him particularly pertinent. At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Ray Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of non-scientific forms of understanding. The kind of understanding we seek in philosophy, Wittgenstein tried to make clear, is similar to the kind we might seek of a person, a piece of music, or, indeed, a poem. Extracts are taken from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and from a range of writings, including Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology.
| Author | : Jonathan Bousfield |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 628 |
| Release | : 2008-10-20 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1405383720 |
Discover a land of breath-taking beauty and inspiring culture with The Rough Guide to Austria, the most comprehensive guide to Austria available. The full-colour introduction with stunning photography will whet your appetite for the country’s many highlights, from the world-class city of Vienna and the astonishing architecture of Salzburg to the snow-capped mountains of Tyrol. The guide features dozens of easy-to-use maps, as well as expert background information on everything from the best ski and snow-boarding slopes to the music of Mozart. Extensive accommodation and restaurant listings, plus all the practical grittiness you’d expect from a Rough Guide make this your must-have item for the trip of a lifetime. Make the most your time with The Rough Guide to Austria.
| Author | : Stefano Marino |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2021-10-07 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1501362798 |
The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years. The book investigates the philosophical aspects of their music at various levels: existential, spiritual, ethical, political, metaphysical and aesthetic. This philosophical interpretation is also dependent on the application of textual and poetic analysis: the interdisciplinary volume puts philosophical aspects of the band's lyrics in close dialogue with 19th- and 20th-century European and American poetry. Through this widespread philosophical examination, the book further looks into the band's immense popularity and commercial success, their deeply loyal fanbase and genuine sense of community surrounding their music, and the pivotal place the band holds within popular music and contemporary culture.
| Author | : Bruce Duffy |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2011-12-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590175654 |
This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by its daring reimagining of the lives of three very different men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A brilliant group portrait with the vertiginous displacements of twentieth-century life looming large in the background, Duffy’s novel depicts times and places as various as Vienna 1900, the trenches of World War I, Bloomsbury, and the colleges of Cambridge, while the complicated main characters appear not only in thought and dispute but in love and despair. Wittgenstein, a strange, troubled, and troubling man of gnawing contradictions, is at the center of a novel that reminds us that the apparently abstract and formal questions that animate philosophy are nothing less than the intractable matters of life and death.
| Author | : Otto Weininger |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2005-04-14 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780253111302 |
Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the women's movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, in the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger's extensive appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a reliable English translation, together with a substantial introduction that places the book in its cultural and historical context.
| Author | : Jacques Bouveresse |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2013-05-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1400821592 |
Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, whose main project has been to stress Freud's scientific grounding. Here Jacques Bouveresse, a noted authority on Ludwig Wittgenstein, contributes to the debate by turning to this Austrian-born philosopher and contemporary of Freud for a candid assessment of the early issues surrounding psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein, who himself had delivered a devastating critique of traditional philosophy, sympathetically pondered Freud's claim to have produced a scientific theory in proposing a new model of the human psyche. What Wittgenstein recognized--and what Bouveresse so eloquently stresses for today's reader--is that psychoanalysis does not aim to produce a change limited to the intellect but rather seeks to provoke an authentic change of human attitudes. The beauty behind the theory of the unconscious for Wittgenstein is that it breaks away from scientific, causal explanations to offer new forms of thinking and speaking, or rather, a new mythology. Offering a critical view of all the texts in which Wittgenstein mentions Freud, Bouveresse immerses us in the intellectual climate of Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century. Although we come to see why Wittgenstein did not view psychoanalysis as a science proper, we are nonetheless made to feel the philosopher's sense of wonder and respect for the cultural task Freud took on as he found new ways meaningfully to discuss human concerns. Intertwined in this story of Wittgenstein's grappling with the theory of the unconscious is the story of how he came to question the authority of science and of philosophy itself. While aiming primarily at the clarification of Wittgenstein's opinion of Freud, Bouveresse's book can be read as a challenge to the French psychoanalytic school of Lacan and as a provocative commentary on cultural authority.
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| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2020 |
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