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Wittgenstein's liberatory philosophy : thinking through his philosophical investigations
- Title
- Wittgenstein's liberatory philosophy : thinking through his philosophical investigations / Rupert Read.
- Author
- Read, Rupert J., 1966-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 386 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this book, Rupert Read outlines the first resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein school, of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein's later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport. Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon Baker, he calls a liberatory reading. Liberatory philosophy is philosophy that can liberate the user from compulsive (and destructive) patterns of thought, freeing one for possibilities that were previously obscured. Such liberation is our prime goal in philosophy. This book consists in a sequential reading, along these lines, of what Read considers the most important and controversial passages in the Philosophical Investigations: 1, 16, 43, 95 & 116 & 122, 130-3, 149-151, 186, 198-201, 217, and 284-6. Read claims that this liberatory conception is simultaneously an ethical conception. The PI should be considered a work of ethics in that its central concern becomes our relation with others. Wittgensteinian liberations challenge widespread assumptions about how we allegedly are independent of and separate from others. Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, and to scholars of the political philosophy of liberation and the ethics of relation"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3893
- ISBN
- 9780367547684
- 0367547686
- LCCN
- 2020037363
- OCLC
- 1164822496
- Author
- Read, Rupert J., 1966- author.
- Title
- Wittgenstein's liberatory philosophy : thinking through his philosophical investigations / Rupert Read.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Read, Rupert J., 1966-, Wittgenstein's liberatory philosophy New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9781003090977 (DLC) 2020037364
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3893