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Leading a Human Life (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,021
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Leading a Human Life (Paperback, New edition): Richard Eldridge

Leading a Human Life (Paperback, New edition)

Richard Eldridge

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In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations," one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century. He does so by reading the text as a dramatization of what is perhaps life's central motivating struggle--the inescapable human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the difficult terms set by culture.
Eldridge sees Wittgenstein as a Romantic protagonist, engaged in an ongoing internal dialogue over the nature of intentional consciousness, ranging over ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind. The picture of the human mind that emerges through this dialogue unsettles behaviorism, cognitivism, and all other scientifically oriented orthodoxies. Leading a human life becomes a creative act, akin to writing a poem, of continuously seeking to overcome both complacency and skepticism. Eldridge's careful reconstruction of the central motive of Wittgenstein's work will influence all subsequent scholarship on it.

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 1997
First published: October 1997
Authors: Richard Eldridge
Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 307
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20313-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-226-20313-1
Barcode: 9780226203133

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