Understanding Wittgenstein's Authorship

Language, Thought, and Reality

Jerry H. Gill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

141 Seiten

2026 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-6132-4 (ISBN)

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"What was Wittgenstein?" is a question emerging from a flurry of scholarly publications in recent years. Beyond the difficulties of sorting out the Wittgenstein of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus from that of his later Philosophical Investigations, there is the question of what was Wittgenstein trying to do in his later work? After years of study and thought over this issue the author has come to the conclusion that much of Wittgensteinian scholarship fails to take his own accounts of his philosophical struggles seriously enough. Wittgenstein was trying to understand the implications of his own discoveries that emerged from his battle to reconcile the nature of language and meaning with his central philosophical concerns. It is possible to trace this struggle, especially in the early pages of the Philosophical Investigations. He was searching for a voice to express his central understanding of the relation between language, thought, and reality. His key, if inchoate, insight was that by means of language we seek, not primarily to describe reality but to transform it. I believe that this was the nature of his philosophical quest.

Jerry H. Gill received his PhD degree from Duke University, USA in 1966 after which he did post-doctoral study at Oxford University, UK. Since then, he has taught philosophy and religious studies at a number of American liberal arts colleges, as well as briefly in Finland and China. He has published numerous books and articles in scholarly journals. In addition to his The Enduring Questions, and the Philosophy Today Series 1, 2, and 3 his major works include Mediated Transcendence; Merleau-Ponty and Metaphor; Ian Ramsey: To Speak Responsibly of God; In Search of Transcendence; Words, Deeds, Bodies; Faith and Philosophy; The Tacit Mode: The Thought of Michael Polanyi; and Deep Postmodernism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2026
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	1-0364-6132-7 / 1036461327
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-6132-4 / 9781036461324
Zustand	Neuware