Wittgenstein

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1847-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

Reihe: Blackwell Great Minds

Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought from his early work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to the posthumous publication of On Certainty, notes written just prior to his death.
* A substantial scholarly addition to our understanding of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by renowned Wittgenstein scholar, Hans Sluga
* Proposes an original new interpretation of Wittgenstein's work
* Written to also be accessible to readers unfamiliar with Wittgenstein's thought
* Includes discussion of the social and political background and contemporary relevance of Wittgenstein's thoughts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sluga, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.

Chapter 1: The Situated Thinker.

Chapter 2: The World and Its Structure.

Chapter 3: The Limits of Language.

Chapter 4: The Prodigious Diversity of Language games.

Chapter 5: Families and Resemblances.

Chapter 6: Our Unsurveyable Grammar.

Chapter 7: Visible Rails Invisibly Laid to Infinity.

Chapter 8: What is the Use of Studying Philosophy?

Über Autor(innen)

Sluga, Hans
Hans Sluga is the William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Gottlob Frege (1980), Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (1993); and editor (with David Stern) of The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (1996).

Hans Sluga is the William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Gottlob Frege (1980) and Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (1993), and editor (with David Stern) of The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (1996).