Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 30, 148 Seiten, broschiert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 228 g
Reihe: West-östliche Denkwege
Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 30, 148 Seiten, broschiert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 228 g
Reihe: West-östliche Denkwege
ISBN: 978-3-89665-716-9
Verlag: Academia
In 1914, Wittgenstein found himself posted for military service to Cracow, long a distinctive intersection point for the cultures of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, and the place where he would begin writing the very first of his surviving philosophical notebooks. A century later, an international conference was organized there (at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow) with the aim of exploring the implications of his thought for our understanding of human culture. Taking this event as its starting point, the present volume has collected contributions from philosophers and researchers specifically engaged with this aspect of his intellectual legacy.
The various aspects of Wittgenstein's thinking highlighted here will serve to broaden and diversify currently existing perspectives on his philosophical intentions, methodology and relevance to contemporary thinking about culture. They also suggest that the adoption of a one-sided approach to his thinking about language, wherein his more analytical claims and the broader cultural background to his philosophical objectives and concerns are isolated from one another, risks depriving us of some of the most fruitful perspectives on his work.
Contributions by:
Susan Edwards-McKie · Wittgenstein's Wager: Mathematics, Culture and Human Action
Jakub Gomulka · Theistic and Atheistic Picture-Metaphors in Our Culture: Wittgensteinian Inspirations
Carl Humphries · Wittgenstein, Culture and Forms of Life
Andreas Koritensky · Leading a Meaningful Life in an Age of Crisis. The Ethical Implications of Wittgenstein's 1930 Sketches 'For a Foreword'
Markus Lipowicz · Nietzsche oder Wittgenstein? Der Mensch zwischen Transgression und Transzendenzerfahrung in der postmodernen Kultur
Walter Schweidler · Wittgenstein, Goethe, and the Metonymic Principle
Chryssi Sidiropoulou · 'A Perspicuous Representation': Ritual Practice and the Human Body in Wittgenstein
Ireneusz Zieminski · Wittgenstein on Eternal Life