Granta's new How to Read series is based on a very simple, but
novel, idea. Most beginners' guides to great thinkers and writers
offer either potted biographies or condensed summaries of their
major works. How to Read, by contrast, brings the reader face to
face with the writing itself in the company of an expert guide. Its
starting point is that in order to get close to what a writer is
all about, you have to get close to the words they actually use and
be shown how to read those words. authors have been asked to select
ten or so short extracts from a writer's work and look at them in
detail as a way of revealing their central ideas and thereby
opening the doors onto a whole world of thought. The books will not
be merely a compilation of a thinker's most famous passages, their
'greatest hits', but will rather offer a series of clues or keys
that will enable to reader to go on and make discoveries of their
own. In addition to the texts and readings, each book will provide
a short biographical chronology and suggestions for further
reading, internet resources and so on. The books in the How to Read
don't claim to tell you all you need to know. Instead they offer a
refreshing set of first-hand meetings with those minds. Our hope is
that these books will instruct, intrigue, embolden, encourage and
delight. other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the
limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a
peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that
of his peers and makes the question of how to read him particularly
pertinent. At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Monk argues, is a
determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a
determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of
non-scientific forms of understanding. The kind of understanding we
seek in philosophy, Wittgenstein tried to make clear, is similar to
the kind we might seek of a person, a piece of music, or, indeed,
of a poem. Wittgenstein's posthumously published writings,
including Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books,
On Certainty and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology.
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