Wittgenstein on Colour

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-035062-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

Reihe: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series

This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thoughts on colour, focusing in particular on his so-called , a piece of writing that has received comparably little attention from Wittgenstein scholars. The book provides the reader with the state of the art in research on Wittgenstein’s thoughts on colour and brings out some of the intricate relations between the and other works by Wittgenstein. The articles in the book discuss why Wittgenstein wrote so intensively about colour during the last years of his life, what significance these remarks have for understanding his philosophical work in general, as well as the upshot of his thoughts on colour.

Contributors to the volume are Andrew Lugg, Joachim Schulte, Gabriele Mras, Richard Heinrich, Herbert Hrachovec, Barry Stroud, Martin Kusch, Frederik Gierlinger and Gary Kemp.

Zielgruppe

Academics (Philosophy, Art History), Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riegelnik, ¿Tefan

Gierlinger, Frederik A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Frederik Andreas Gierlinger, University of Vienna, Austria; Štefan Riegelnik, University of Zurich, Switzerland.