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Walking home with Wittgenstein a literary/philosophical investigation of the pragmatic existentialism in the Tractatus and Philosophical investigations /
- Title
- Walking home with Wittgenstein a literary/philosophical investigation of the pragmatic existentialism in the Tractatus and Philosophical investigations / Henry L. Ruf.
- Author
- Ruf, Henry L.,
- Publication
- [United States] : [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2017.
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- Description
- 311 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Modern
- Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)
- Existentialism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 > Tractatus logico-philosophicus
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 > Philosophische Untersuchungen
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 > Criticism and interpretation
- Philosophische Untersuchungen (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 293-311).
- Contents
- Wittgenstein's Life Informing His Writings -- The Philosophical World in which Wittgenstein Reflected: Plato's Theory of Language. Kant's Critical Metaphysics. Schopenhauer on Will and Representation. Kierkegaard's Good and Bad Forms of Life. Brentano and Meinong on Intensionality. Frege on Sense, Reference. Functions and Concepts -- A Literary Investigation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The Numbering System. The General Outline of the Text. The Major Divisions in the Text -- An Investigation of the Major Themes of the Tractatus: Transcendental Lingualism. Propositions and Propositional Signs. The Sense of Propositions and the Meaning of Names. Objects and Facts. Explaining Away Pseudo-Propositions. The Mystical -- Setting the Stage for Wittgenstein's Later Writings: Russell's Logical Atomism. Logical Positivism. G.E. Moore's Defence of Common Sense -- The Literary form & Structure of the Philosophical Investigations: The Text Itself. Wittgenstein's New Linguistic Pragmatism. The Primacy of the Public and Social over the Private an Mental. The Nature of Thought, Thinking, the Thinker -- Personal and Interpersonal Human Form of Life: Philosophical Investigations Part II, On Certainty -- Postlude: social Pragmatism is not Social Relativism.
- ISBN
- 9781975881863
- 1975881869
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library