Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion

Thomas D. Carroll (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

209 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48827-8 (ISBN)

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The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes.

Thomas D. Carroll is Professor of Philosophy at Xing Wei College in Shanghai, China.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Wittgenstein on Religion 1. Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgenstein's Corpus 2. Wittgenstein, Biography, and Religious Identity 3. A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion 4. The Traditions of Fideism 5. On 'Fideism' as an Interpretive Category 6. Religions, Epistemic Isolation, and Social Trust 7. Wittgenstein's Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	X, 209 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-349-48827-5 / 1349488275
ISBN-13	978-1-349-48827-8 / 9781349488278
Zustand	Neuware