Research Catalog

Title

Wittgenstein and value : the quest for meaning / Eric B. Litwack.

Author

Litwack, Eric B.

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.

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Details

Description

xii, 176 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The author presents Wittgenstein's many challenging ideas and arguments related to the notion of value theory and the implications of his work for debates in contemporary ethics, aesthetics and religious studies.

Series Statement

Continuum studies in British philosophy

Uniform Title

Continuum studies in British philosophy

Subject

• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig
• Values
• Waardetheorie
• Värderingar

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-169) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Wittgenstein's early conception of value -- An outline of tractarian ontology -- Value, the self and the mystical -- The 'lecture on ethics' -- Language-games, the private language argument and aspect psychology -- Language-games -- The private language argument -- Aspect psychology -- The soul and attitudes towards the living -- Wittgenstein's general conception of the soul -- Ilham Dilman on the soul and 'seeing-as' -- Religious contexts -- J.B. Watson and the denial of the soul -- Attitudes towards other minds and forms of life -- The soul and the face -- Aspect-blindness and dawning -- Particularism, rule-following and evaluations -- David McNaughton on the property of humanity and particularism -- John McDowell on rule-following and values -- Peter Winch on moral particularism -- The meaning and value of the 'religious point of view' -- Wittgenstein on Frazer's Golden bough -- Truth in religion -- Wittgenstein on art : reactions and causes -- Aesthetics, causes and natural history -- A contemporary evolutionary account of aesthetic value -- Neuroscientific accounts -- Aesthetic realism and the definition of art -- Aesthetic historicism and relativism -- Institutional and historical theories of art -- Forms of life, moral truth and justification -- Cora Diamond on 'seeing-as', theory and imagination -- Paul Johnston on moral justification and truth -- D.Z. Phillips and H.O. Mounce on the justification of morality -- Doubt and certainty : framework beliefs and core values -- An overview of certainty -- Avrum Stroll, Anthony O'Hear and Cyril Barrett on certainty and value -- Cultural relativism and institutional embodiment -- Peter Winch on cultural relativism -- Sabina Lovibond on moral facts and institutional embodiment -- Cyril Barrett on cultural relativism -- Conclusion : how to do things with Wittgenstein.

ISBN

• 9780826499011
• 0826499015
• 9781441150370
• 1441150374

LCCN

2008038912

OCLC

• ocn248538157
• 248538157
• SCSB-9513732

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library