Wittgenstein

  • Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy
    By Michael A. Peters, Michael P.. Peters, James D. Marshall

    Peters and Marshall examine the parallels between the later Wittgenstein and French poststructuralism and investigate the direct appropriation of Wittgenstein's work by poststructuralists. They discuss the most pressing problems facing...

  • Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
    By A. C. Grayling

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  • Wittgenstein
    By Anthony Kenny

    This revised edition includes an extensive new introduction in which Kenny outlines developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published and assesses Wittgenstein’s influence in the latter part of the twentieth ...

  • Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly-bottle
    By Severin Schroeder

    This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character.

  • Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
    By A. C. Grayling

    A. C. Grayling's accessible introduction to Wittgenstein's work describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary ...

  • Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed
    By Mark Addis

    Presenting a commentary on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book offers guidance to reading Wittgenstein and a methodology for interpreting his works.

  • Wittgenstein: Key Concepts
    By Kelly Dean Jolley

    That common language, and the common ground on which it is spoken and the common lives from which it is spoken, count, ... It is because philosophical problems are framed in our common language and because responses to them must be, ...

  • Wittgenstein: Mind and Language
    By R. Egidi

    Johannes L. Brandl1 Universität Salzburg, Austria Anthony Kenny suggests in his stimulating paper Wittgenstein's Metaphysics ofMind that Wittgenstein's attack on Cartesianismis drivenbya metaphysical viewsimilarto Aristotle's theoryof ...

  • Wittgenstein: The Man and His Philosophy
    By Alfred Jules Ayer

    Briefly traces the life of the Vienna-born philosopher, examines his major works, and discusses the fundamental concepts of his philosophy

  • Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly-bottle
    By Severin Schroeder

    by, everything that has been said in this chapter in an attempt to make sense of the Tractatus. ... As regards textual evidence, the Nonsense Interpretation appears rather like a post-modernist joke, and has already been thoroughly ...

  • Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 2: Exegesis
    By P. M. S. Hacker

    "In the exegesis of Wittgenstein, Peter Hacker's work is pre-eminent. This revised edition of Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind shows him capable of surpassing even himself.

  • Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works
    By Alois Pichler, Simo Säätelä

    Another reason for arranging this conference was the completion of the publication of the Bergen Electronic Edition of Wittgenstein's Nachlass.2 The bulk of the papers in the present collection derive from that conference, ...

  • Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy
    By James C. Klagge, James Carl Klagge, Klagge

    A collection of essays exploring the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy.

  • Wittgenstein
    By Robert J. Fogelin

    Fogelin explains Wittgenstein's attempt in the Tractatus to combine a picture theory of propositional structure, and also explores Wittgenstein's own criticisms of the Tractarian synthesis.

  • Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed
    By Mark Addis

    Presenting a commentary on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book offers guidance to reading Wittgenstein and a methodology for interpreting his works.

  • Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View?
    By Norman Malcolm

    The book concludes with a critical discussion of Malcolm's essay by Peter Winch.

  • Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context
    By P. M. S. Hacker

    This volume collects P. M. S. Hacker's papers on Wittgenstein and related themes written over the last decade.

  • Wittgenstein: Key Concepts
    By Kelly Dean Jolley

    Wittgenstein's Lectures: Cambridge, 1932–1935, From the Notes of John King and Desmond Lee, D. Lee (ed.). Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield. Wittgenstein, L. 1982. Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I: Preliminary ...

  • Wittgenstein: A Way of Seeing
    By Judith Genova

    Genova examines the nuances, contours, and texture of logical twists of language. She elucidates Wittgenstein's reliance on the work of Kant and Freud, and presents how words are acts for Wittgenstein.

  • Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View?
    By Norman Malcolm

    The book concludes with a critical discussion of Malcolm's essay by Peter Winch.