The book focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in
their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the
subject - Philosophical Investigations and Truth and Method,
respectively. Chris Lawn goes on to offer a critique of
Wittgenstein's account of linguistic rules, drawing upon Gadamer's
philosophical hermeneutics, particularly his emphasis upon
tradition, temporality, historicality and novelty. The text
demonstrates how paying attention to such elements - excluded by
Wittgenstein's conception of rules - in fact strengthens
Wittgenstein's position from a hermeneutical perspective. Finally,
Wittgenstein and Gadamer investigates the possibility of connection
between Wittgenstein's focus upon lexical particularity and
Gadamer's greater concern for the universal and the general. A
groundbreaking work of post-analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein and
Gadamer brings the work of two major modern philosophers in to
dialogue. It is required reading for anyone studying or researching
the work of either philosopher, or the philosophy of language more
generally.
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