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Wittgenstein's Tractatus - History and Interpretation (Hardcover)
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus - History and Interpretation (Hardcover)
Series: Mind Association Occasional Series
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This volume of newly written chapters on the history and
interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represents a significant
step beyond the polemical debate between broad interpretive
approaches that has recently characterized the field. Some of the
contributors might count their approach as 'new' or 'resolute',
while others are more 'traditional', but all are here concerned
primarily with understanding in detail the structure of argument
that Wittgenstein presents within the Tractatus, rather than with
its final self-renunciation, or with the character of the
understanding that renunciation might leave behind. The volume
makes a strong case that close investigation, both biographical and
textual, into the composition of the Tractatus, and into the
various influences on it, still has much to yield in revealing the
complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought. Amongst
these influences Kant and Kierkegaard are considered alongside
Wittgenstein's immediate predecessors in the analytic tradition.
The themes explored range across the breadth of Wittgenstein's
book, and include his accounts of ethics and aesthetics, as well as
issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and aspects of
the logical framework of his account of representation. The
contrast of saying and showing, and Wittgenstein's attitude to the
inexpressible, is of central importance to many of the
contributions. By approaching this concern through the various
first-level issues that give rise to it, rather than from
entrenched schematic positions, the contributors demonstrate the
possibility of a more inclusive, constructive and fruitful mode of
engagement with Wittgenstein's text and with each other.
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