Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 586 g
Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations
Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 586 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-54871-1
Verlag: Routledge
In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein ‘school’, of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport.
Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon Baker, he calls a liberatory reading. Liberatory philosophy is philosophy that can liberate the user from compulsive (and destructive) patterns of thought, freeing one for possibilities that were previously obscured. Such liberation is our prime goal in philosophy. This book consists in a sequential reading, along these lines, of what Read considers the most important and controversial passages in the Philosophical Investigations: 1, 16, 43, 95 & 116 & 122, 130–3, 149–151, 186, 198–201, 217, and 284–6. Read claims that this liberatory conception is simultaneously an ethical conception. The PI should be considered a work of ethics in that its central concern becomes our relation with others. Wittgensteinian liberations challenge widespread assumptions about how we allegedly are independent of and separate from others.
Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, and to scholars of the political philosophy of liberation and the ethics of relation.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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Weitere Infos & Material
0 Introduction: Thinking through Wittgenstein 1
1 The Philosopher and Temptation: Wittgenstein’s Augustinian Opening Move 42
2 “It Is as You Please”: PI 16 as an Icon oWittgenstein’s Philosophy of Freedom 78
3 What Is (Wittgenstein’s Own Account of) Meaning?: PI 43 and Its Critics 108
4 When Wittgenstein Speaks of ‘Everyday’ Language, He Means Simply Language: A Liberatory Reading of PI 95–124 143
5 Objects of Comparison to the Real (Philosophical?)Discovery: PI 130–133 188
6 Wittgenstein Dissolves the Know-How vs Knowledge- that Debate: PI 149–151 206
7 Logical Existentialism?: An Approach to PI 186 226
8 The Faux- Freedom of Nonsense: Kripke’s Wittgenstein and Wittgenstein’s Wittgenstein at PI 198–201 260
9 Overcoming Over- Reliance on ‘The Bedrock’?: On PI 217 279
10 The Anti-‘Private-Language’Considerations as a Fraternal and Freeing Ethic: Towards a Re-Reading of PI 284–309 297
11 Conclusion: (A)
Liberating Philosophy 327
Bibliography 363
Index 382
