Wittgenstein has most often been treated as a thinker whose ideas
can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. The
thrust of these essays, by America's leading authority on
Wittgenstein's thought, is to insist on the mutual relevance of
Wittgenstein's work and the tradition of Western philosophy. Far
from overthrowing that tradition, Wittgenstein builds on it, draws
from it, and contributes to the fruition of certain elements in it.
Particular attention is paid here to Kant, and to what Finch has
called Wittgenstein's completion of Kant's revolt against the
Cartesian hegemony of epistemology in philosophy. Also very Kantian
is the dualism that seems unavoidable in a perspective or
"Weltanschauung" which contains both facts and meanings, since
meanings always somehow transcend the plain facts that convey them
and that they convey. With respect to the givenness of
language-games and of "this complicated form of life", on the other
hand, Wittgenstein seems closer to Aristotle than to Kant. Seeing
Wittgenstein within the tradition of Western philosophy requires a
fresh look at Wittgenstein as well as at that tradition. Among the
themes of this work: that the principal metaphysical claims of the
"Tractatus" is that the world is the totality of facts; that
grammar is the key to Wittgenstein's later work because philosophy
itself is a form of grammar; and that a certain sort of
transcendentality pervades Wittgenstein's work.
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