Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language
Title | Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Nieli |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2016-01-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438414714 |
Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language presents the Tractatus as a work of mystic theology intended to direct the reader to a transcendental plane from which human existence can be viewed from the divine perspective. More than any other work on Wittgenstein, this study integrates text material with personal biographical information, especially information dealing with his spiritual and psychological states. The result is a fresh, coherent, and extremely illuminating picture of Wittgenstein, successfully avoiding the pitfalls of either psychological reductionism or unfaithfulness to the text. It is bold without being reckless, passionately argued without being doctrinaire, and makes a very powerful and persuasive case for its main thesis.
The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings
Title | The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 158 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1135893713 |
The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Title | The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Jose Medina |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2002-07-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791453889 |
Explores the stable core of Wittgenstein's philosophy as developed from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations.
Wittgenstein's Ladder
Title | Wittgenstein's Ladder PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie Perloff |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-06-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0226924866 |
“[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein’s conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry.” —Linda Voris, Boston Review Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein’s remark that “philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,” Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the “poet.” What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal. “This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.” —Linda Munk, American Literature “Wittgenstein’s Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds.” —David Clippinger, Chicago Review “Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original.” —Willard Bohn, SubStance
Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics
Title | Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | B.R. Tilghman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1349211745 |
The author's purpose in this volume is to present the relevance of the ideas of Wittgenstein to those interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He focuses on both the earlier work centred around the "Tractatus" and the later work of the "Philosophical Investigations".
In Search of Meaning
Title | In Search of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Ulrich Arnswald |
Publisher | KIT Scientific Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Aufsatzsammlung |
ISBN | 3866442181 |
The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethical and religious thought and language will not be achieved by metaphysical theories expounded from such a point of view, but by focusing on our everyday forms of expression.
Wittgenstein's Ordinary Language World
Title | Wittgenstein's Ordinary Language World PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastien Kelso |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2018-07-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781723332883 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is compared with Philosophical Investigations, with attempt to draw a continuity between the two texts. It is argued that the Tractatus, when simplified to its seven fundamental propositions, establishes rules for ordinary conversation. This is consistent with Wittgenstein's lifelong commitment to ordinary language philosophy, which is present in the Investigations.