My aim is to show that "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life." It is an investigation of the world of secret affinities between language and life throughout Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings. In so doing, I am not limiting myself to his later philosophy, where the above statement appears. Instead, I look at his work as a whole. My Introduction is therefore set to sketch this holistic view by paying particular attention to his earlier assertion that "the world and life are one." I also need to note that while it is hard to miss my indebtedness to a few philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition like Stanly Cavell, Cora Diamond and James Conant, who revolutionized the way by which we think about Wittgenstein, my conversation here is situated in a wider, more Continental, context. The Epilogue is thus searching for the ways by which the notion of form of life could outlive Wittgenstein's own thought, as it does in the work of Giorgio Agamben. In between, these and other questions arise: Can logic, the form of language, reflect not only the form of the world, but also the form of life (Chapter One)? Does the picture that held us captive in respect to language still captivate our lives (Chapter Two)? Would a comprehension of the meaning of language help us to come to terms with the meaning of life (Chapter Three)? But how could one translate an austere view of language into an austere view of life ( Chapter Four)? And how should we approach the idea of a private language, or a private form of life (Chapter Five)? Finally, what are we to make of the claim that "what has to be accepted, the given, is---so one could say---forms of life" (Chapter Six)? My hope, then, is that these remarks on Wittgenstein's philosophy of language point towards a new philosophy of life, and help us, indeed, to imagine a form of life.

Wittgenstein's Form of Life reveals the intricate relationship between language and life throughout Ludwig Wittgenstein's work. Drawing on the entire corpus of his writings, David Kishik offers a synoptic view of Wittgenstein's evolving thought by considering the notion of form of life as its vanishing center. The book takes its cue from the idea that 'to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life', in order to present the first holistic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy in the spirit of a new wave of interpretations, pioneered by Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond and James Conant. It is also an enticing contribution to the rising discourse revolving around the subject of life, led by the recent work of Giorgio Agamben. Standing on the threshold between the Analytic and the Continental philosophical traditions, Kishik shows how Wittgenstein's philosophy of language points toward a new philosophy of life, thereby making a unique contribution to our ethical and political thought.

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.

"So ask yourself the question: "What does the life I long to live look like?" Imagine it! Draw it, write it, collage it and just plain dream it. Believe you can have it and then go about creating it as you take daily steps towards becoming an enhanced version of yourself! All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose"--

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