Wittgenstein

A Very Short Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-285411-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 113 mm x 176 mm, Gewicht: 140 g

Reihe: Very Short Introductions

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Grayling, A. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Life and character

- The early philosophy

- 2: Aims and background

- 3: The argument of the Tractatus

- 4: Some comments and questions

- 5: The influence of the early philosophy

- The later philosophy

- 6: The transitional period

- 7: Method, meaning, and use

- 8: Understanding and rule following

- 9: 'Forms of life', private language, and criteria

- 10: Mind and knowledge

- 11: Some reflections and comments

- 12: Wittgenstein and recent philosophy

- Further reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

A. C. Grayling is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Sumernumary Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, the Refutation of Scepticism, and Berkeley: The central arguments, and editor of Philosophy: A guide through the subject and Philosophy 2: Further through the subject.