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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
Subject
  • Existentialism
  • Existentialism
  • Philosophische Untersuchungen (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)
  • Philosophy, Modern
  • Philosophy, Modern
  • Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
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
OCLC
  • on1005847070
  • 1005847070
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library