Research Catalog

Title

Finding one's way through Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations : new essays on 1-88 / Emmanuel Bermon, Jean-Philippe Narboux, editors.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bermon, Emmanuel
• Narboux, Jean-Philippe, 1973-

Description

xviii, 179 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This volume sheds a new light on 'Philosophical investigations', Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening. The methodological conviction that subtends the volume is that the highly unconventional form assumed by the book is internal to its content and crucial to its reconception of the relation between logic and language. This disconcerting form is dictated by the new modes of criticism deployed by Wittgenstein as he engages the philosophical tradition in the new terms afforded by the revolutionary "method of language-games". In the essays collected here, seven authors, including some of the most influential figures in the field, offer close and often unorthodox readings of pivotal passages from the beginning of the book. These readings are also shaped by the conviction that the 'Philosophical investigations' are hardly intelligible apart from an appreciation of the concerns that they inherit from Wittgenstein's early work, the 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'. The authors contend that we need to consider the continuities between the early and the later works if we are to disclose the true discontinuities between them.

Series Statement

Nordic Wittgenstein studies ; volume 2

Uniform Title

Nordic Wittgenstein studies ; v. 2.

Subjects

• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 > Philosophische Untersuchungen
• Philosophische Untersuchungen (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Reading philosophical investigations resolutely / Kelly Dean Jolley -- Wittgenstein reads Augustine / Emmanuel Bermon -- The Augustinian picture and its counter-picture: PI 1 and PI 43 as twins / Rupert Read -- Faust's way / Charles Travis -- Wittgenstein, language, and chess / Martin Gustafsson -- Simplicity and rigidity / Jean-Philippe Narboux -- Devising a logical notation in a contextualist setting / Denis Perrin.

Call Number

JFE 18-3342

ISBN

• 3319635069
• 9783319635064

OCLC

991754283

Title

Finding one's way through Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations : new essays on 1-88 / Emmanuel Bermon, Jean-Philippe Narboux, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Nordic Wittgenstein studies ; volume 2

Nordic Wittgenstein studies ; v. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bermon, Emmanuel, editor.

Narboux, Jean-Philippe, 1973- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-3342