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Thinking in the Ruins - Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Thinking in the Ruins - Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
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While Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and George Santayana
(1863-1952) may never have met or even have studied one another's
work, they experienced similar cultural conditions and their
thinking took similar shapes. Yet, until now, their respective
bodies of work have been examined separately and in isolation from
one another.
Santayana is often regarded as an aesthetician and metaphysician,
but Wittgenstein's work is usually seen as antithetical to the
philosophical approaches favored by Santayana. In this insightful
new study, Michael Hodges and John Lachs argue that behind the
striking differences in philosophical style and vocabulary there is
a surprising agreement in position. The similarities have largely
gone unnoticed because of their divergent styles, different
metaphilosophies, and separate spheres of influence. Hodges and
Lachs show that Santayana's and Wittgenstein's works express their
philosophical responses to contingency. Surprisingly, both thinkers
turn to the integrity of human practices to establish a viable
philosophical understanding of the human condition.
Both of these important twentieth-century philosophers formed their
mature views at a time when the comfortable certainties of Western
civilization were crumbling all around them. What they say is
similar at least in part because they wished to resist the spread
of ruin by relying on the calm sanity of our linguistic and other
practices. According to both, it is not living human knowledge but
a mistaken philosophical tradition that demands foundations and
thus creates intellectual homelessness and displacement. Both
thought that, to get our house in order, we have to rethink our
social, religious, philosophical, and moral practices outside the
context of the search for certainty. This insight and the projects
that flowed from it define their philosophical kinship.
Thinking in the Ruins will enhance our understanding of these
monumental thinkers' intellectual accomplishments and show how each
influenced subsequent American philosophers. The book also serves
as a call to philosophers to look beyond traditional
classifications to the substance of philosophical thought.
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