Words and Things - An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology (Paperback, 2nd edition)

When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner embarked on the project that was to put him on the intellectual map. "Words and Things" was the first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement. The basic charge was that Linguistic Philosophy was an aberrant, trivializing perversion of good philosophical practice, substituting, in place of honest theorizing and argument, pedantic scrutiny of intrinsically uninteresting detail. When this now-famous critique originally appeared in 1959, it created a scandal, causing a flurry of correspondence in the Times. "Words and Things" remains the most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom in philosophy to this day.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Classics
Release date:	2005
First published:	2005
Foreword by:	Bertrand Russell
Introduction by:	Ian Jarvie
Authors:	Ernest Gellner
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	360
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-34548-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-415-34548-0
Barcode:	9780415345484

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