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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important and
influential philosophers in modern times, but he is also one of the
least accessible. In this volume, leading experts chart the
development of his work and clarify the connections between its
different stages. The essays, which are both expository and
original, address central themes in Wittgenstein's writing on a
wide range of topics, particularly his thinking about the mind,
language, logic, and mathematics. The contributors illuminate the
character of the whole body of work by focusing on key topics: the
style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it,
rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what
Wittgenstein called, in a famous phrase, 'forms of life'. This
revised edition includes a new introduction, five new essays - on
Tractarian ethics, Wittgenstein's development, aspects, the mind,
and time and history - and a fully updated comprehensive
bibliography.
Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the
firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which
politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a
natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a
multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He
contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative
theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer
'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has
found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in
Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He then examines
the sources of diagnostic political thinking, analyzes its
achievements, and offers a critical assessment of its limitations.
His important book will be of interest to a wide range of
upper-level students and scholars in political philosophy,
political theory, and the history of ideas.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important and
influential philosophers in modern times, but he is also one of the
least accessible. In this volume, leading experts chart the
development of his work and clarify the connections between its
different stages. The essays, which are both expository and
original, address central themes in Wittgenstein's writing on a
wide range of topics, particularly his thinking about the mind,
language, logic, and mathematics. The contributors illuminate the
character of the whole body of work by focusing on key topics: the
style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it,
rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what
Wittgenstein called, in a famous phrase, 'forms of life'. This
revised edition includes a new introduction, five new essays - on
Tractarian ethics, Wittgenstein's development, aspects, the mind,
and time and history - and a fully updated comprehensive
bibliography.
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