Tradition and Individuality

Essays
1992
ISBN: 978-0-7923-1566-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 221, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 3810 g

Reihe: Synthese Library

A volume of essays on the themes of tradition, oral communication versus literal communication, Wittgenstein, and computers. The later Wittgenstein is shown to be on the one hand a , and on the other hand, along with Heidegger, a philosopher of postmodern -- secondary -- , yearning for bygone, premodern times -- the times of orality. Under conditions of primary orality traditions fulfilled the specific cognitive role of conserving information -- a role subsequently taken over by writing, and today by electronic data processing.
The message of the volume is that the Western values of individuality and critical thinking are intimately bound up with the technology of . It offers arguments in favour of the standards and techniques of classical education even under conditions of, indeed as a foundation for, the emerging computer culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nyíri, J. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Wittgenstein’s New Traditionalism.- 2: Wittgenstein 1929–31: Conservatism and Jewishness.- 3: Collective Reason: Roots of a Sociological Theory of Knowledge.- 4: Some Marxian Themes in the Age of Information.- 5: Tradition and Practical Knowledge.- 6: “Tradition” and Related Terms: A Semantic Survey.- 7: Historical Consciousness in the Computer Age.- 8: On Esperanto: Usage and Contrivance in Language.- 9: Heidegger and Wittgenstein.- 10: Writing and the Private Language Argument.- Notes.