Wittgenstein (eBook)

Hans Sluga (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
168 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781444343281 (ISBN)

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wittgenstein

"Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein's work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account of his thought."
Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich

"Concise, clear, and accessible, this sophisticated introduction covers an unusually wide range of central topics, including Wittgenstein's historical and intellectual context, his philosophical development, and the ethical and political implications of his work."
David Stern, University of Iowa

For his radical questioning, original thinking, and determination to reshape the philosophical landscape, Ludwig Wittgenstein is widely hailed as a giant in twentieth-century philosophy. Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of the Austrian-born philosopher's thought from his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the posthumous publication of On Certainty, notes written just prior to his death. Renowned Wittgenstein scholar Hans Sluga first recounts events in Wittgenstein's life in order to illuminate the historical, political, and personal conditions from which his philosophical work emerged. After identifying some of the philosopher's key concepts and ideas in subsequent chapters, Sluga then reveals how the cultural and political changes that Wittgenstein and his contemporaries lived through mirror many of the dramatic events now happening in the twenty-first century. Sluga's original analysis goes on to illustrate vividly how Wittgenstein's thought may help us to face the peculiar problems of our own contemporary social and political existence. Illuminating and thought provoking, Wittgenstein offers ground-breaking new insights into the mind of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Autor

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).

Inhalt

Preface vi

Abbreviations x

1 The situated thinker 1

2 The world and its structure 20

3 The limits of language 39

4 The prodigious diversity of language games 57

5 Families and resemblances 76

6 Our unsurveyable grammar 95

7 Visible rails invisibly laid to infinity 112

8 What is the use of studying philosophy? 131

Index 151

Rezensionen

"Sluga's Wittgenstein would be an ideal
textbook in a course on Wittgenstein and political philosophy and
an excellent introduction for those interested in exploring that
relation." (Philosophy in Review, 1 December
2012)

"Sluga's encyclopedic knowledge of Wittgenstein, and
of other philosophers such as Frege and Heidegger, attests that he
is eminently well qualified to write this book. Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates and
graduate students." (Choice, 1 August
2012)

Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated
thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with
an often original and always profound understanding of
Wittgenstein's work, yielding an accessible and illuminating
account of his thought.

--Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich

Concise, clear and accessible, this sophisticated introduction
covers an unusually wide range of central topics, including
Wittgenstein's historical and intellectual context, his
philosophical development, and the ethical and political
implications of his work.

-- David Stern, University of Iowa

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Great Minds
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Philosophie • Philosophy • Wittgenstein • Wittgenstein, Ludwig
• ISBN-13: 9781444343281 / 9781444343281