Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 February 2004
- ISBN 9780199271139
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 233x156x21 mm
- Weight 581 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies consists of thirteen thematically linked essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein. After an introductory overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy the following essays fall into two classes. Some investigate connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein and other philosophers or philosophical trends. Others enter into some of the controversies that, over the last two decades, have raged over the interpretation of one aspect or another of Wittgenstein's writings.
These far-ranging essays, several of them previously unpublished or difficult to find, shed much light upon different aspects of Wittgenstein's thought, and upon the controversies which it has stimulated.
Long description:
Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies consists of thirteen thematically linked essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, by one of the leading commentators on his work. After an opening overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy the following essays fall into two classes: those that investigate connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein and other philosophers and philosophical trends, and those which enter into some of the controversies that, over the last two decades, have raged over the interpretation of one aspect or another of Wittgenstein's writings.
The connections that are explored include the relationship between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the humanistic and hermeneutic traditions in European philosophy, Wittgenstein's response to Frazer's Golden Bough and the interpretation of ritual actions, his attitude towards and criticisms of Frege (both in the Tractatus and in the later philosophy), the relationship between his ideas and those of members of the Vienna Circle on the matter of ostensive definition, and a comparison of Carnap's conception of the elimination of metaphysics and of Strawson's rehabilitation of metaphysics with Wittgenstein's later criticisms of metaphysics.
The controversies into which Hacker enters include the Diamond-Conant interpretation of the Tractatus (which is shown to be inconsistent with the text of the Tractatus and with Wittgenstein's explanations of and comments on his book), Winch's interpretation of the Tractatus conception of names, Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's discussion of following a rule (which is demonstrated to be remote from Wittgenstein's intentions), and Malcolm's defence of the idea that Wittgenstein claimed that mastery of a language logically requires that the language be shared with other speakers.
These far-ranging essays, several of them previously unpublished or difficult to find, shed much light upon different aspects of Wittgenstein's thought, and upon the controversies which it has stimulated.
Review from previous edition the standard interpretation of Wittgenstein ... can be attributed to a large extent to the interpretive work of P.M.S. Hacker.
Table of Contents:
Wittgenstein -- an Overview
Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding
Developmental Hypotheses and Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein on Frazer's Golden Bough
Postscript
Was he Trying to Whistle it?
When the Whistling had to Stop
Naming, Thinking, and Meaning in the Tractatus
Postscript
Frege and the Early Wittgenstein
Frege and the Later Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: The Exaltation and Deposition of Ostensive Definition
On Misunderstanding Wittgenstein: Kripke's Private Language Argument
Malcolm on Language and Rules
On Carnap's Elimination of Metaphysics
On Strawson's Rehabilitation of Metaphysics
Index
