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Applying Wittgenstein (Hardcover): Laura Cook Applying Wittgenstein (Hardcover)
Laura Cook; Rupert Read
R4,887 Discovery Miles 48 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our conception of philosophy has for the ways in which we talk about meaning. He goes on to engage with literary texts as Wittgensteinian, where 'Wittgensteinian' does not mean expressive of a Wittgenstein philosophy, but involves the literature in question remaining enigmatic, and doing philosophical work of its own. He considers Faulkner's work as productive too of a broadly Wittgensteinian philosophy of psychopathology. Read then turns to philosophical accounts of time, finding a link between the division of time into discrete moments and solipsism of the present moment as depicted in philosophy on the one hand and psychopathological states on the other. This important book positions itself at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in Wittgenstein studies and philosophy in general and offers a new and dynamic way of using Wittgenstein's works.

Philosophy for Life - Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture (Hardcover, New): M. A. Lavery Philosophy for Life - Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture (Hardcover, New)
M. A. Lavery; Rupert Read
R4,566 Discovery Miles 45 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Philosophy for Life is a bold call for the practice of philosophy in our everyday lives. Philosopher and writer Rupert Read explores a series of important and often provocative contemporary political and cultural issues from a philosophical perspective, arguing that philosophy is not a body of doctrine, but a practice, a vantage point from which life should be analysed and, more importantly, acted upon. Philosophy for Life is a personal journey that explores four key areas of society today:Politics, Religion, Art, and the Environment. Taking tangible examples from modern politics, from climate change to the war on terror, and culture, from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy to the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Read shows that philosophyis already an active part of today's world. This captivating and timelybook offers a philosophical response to some of the key questions facing today's society and encourages us to use philosophy as a kind of therapy. Philosophy for Lifeshows that we canimprove our perspective on the world and our place in it by doing philosophy everyday.

Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy - Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations (Paperback): Rupert Read Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy - Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations (Paperback)
Rupert Read
R1,223 Discovery Miles 12 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein 'school', of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein's later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport. Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon Baker, he calls a liberatory reading. Liberatory philosophy is philosophy that can liberate the user from compulsive (and destructive) patterns of thought, freeing one for possibilities that were previously obscured. Such liberation is our prime goal in philosophy. This book consists in a sequential reading, along these lines, of what Read considers the most important and controversial passages in the Philosophical Investigations: 1, 16, 43, 95 & 116 & 122, 130-3, 149-151, 186, 198-201, 217, and 284-6. Read claims that this liberatory conception is simultaneously an ethical conception. The PI should be considered a work of ethics in that its central concern becomes our relation with others. Wittgensteinian liberations challenge widespread assumptions about how we allegedly are independent of and separate from others. Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, and to scholars of the political philosophy of liberation and the ethics of relation.

Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy - Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover): Rupert Read Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy - Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
Rupert Read
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein 'school', of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein's later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport. Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon Baker, he calls a liberatory reading. Liberatory philosophy is philosophy that can liberate the user from compulsive (and destructive) patterns of thought, freeing one for possibilities that were previously obscured. Such liberation is our prime goal in philosophy. This book consists in a sequential reading, along these lines, of what Read considers the most important and controversial passages in the Philosophical Investigations: 1, 16, 43, 95 & 116 & 122, 130-3, 149-151, 186, 198-201, 217, and 284-6. Read claims that this liberatory conception is simultaneously an ethical conception. The PI should be considered a work of ethics in that its central concern becomes our relation with others. Wittgensteinian liberations challenge widespread assumptions about how we allegedly are independent of and separate from others. Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, and to scholars of the political philosophy of liberation and the ethics of relation.

A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment (Paperback): Rupert Read A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment (Paperback)
Rupert Read
R1,289 Discovery Miles 12 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films-one explored in greater detail and the other analyzed as a minor key which reveals the possibility for the book's ideas to be applied across different films, registers, and genres. The readings are not only interpretive, but they offer a way of thinking and feeling about, with, and through films which is genuinely transformative. Rupert Read's main contention is that certain films can bring about a change in how we see the world. He advocates an ecological approach to film-philosophy analysis, arguing that film can re-shape the viewer's relationship to the environment and other living beings. The transformative 'wake-up call' of these films is enlightenment in its true sense. The result is a book that ambitiously aims to change, though film, how we think of ourselves and our place in the world, at a time when such change is more needed than ever before.

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science - In Defence of Peter Winch (Paperback): Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock There is No Such Thing as a Social Science - In Defence of Peter Winch (Paperback)
Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock
R1,608 Discovery Miles 16 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns. Re-establishing a Winchian voice, the authors examine how such contentions involve a failure to understand central themes in Winch's writings and that the issues which occupied him in his Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy and later papers remain central to social studies. The volume offers a careful reading of the text in alliance with Wittgensteinian insights and alongside a focus on the nature and results of social thought and inquiry. It draws parallels with other movements in the social studies, notably ethnomethodology, to demonstrate how Winch's central claim is both more significant and more difficult to transcend than sociologists and philosophers have hitherto imagined.

Wittgenstein among the Sciences - Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method' (Paperback): Rupert... Wittgenstein among the Sciences - Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method' (Paperback)
Rupert Read, Edited by Simon Summers
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation. In other words, Read pursues a 'therapeutic' approach to the issue of the status and nature of these subjects. Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines are analysed. A novel and significant contribution to social science methodology and the philosophy of science and 'the human sciences', this book will be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, as well as to psychiatrists, economists and cognitive scientists.

A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes (Hardcover): Rupert Read A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes (Hardcover)
Rupert Read
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes examines how some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have so puzzled philosophers over the centuries can be dissolved. Read argues that paradoxes such as the Sorites, Russell's Paradox and the paradoxes of time travel do not, in fact, need to be solved. Rather, using a resolute Wittgensteinian 'therapeutic' method, the book explores how virtually all apparent philosophical paradoxes can be diagnosed and dissolved through examining their conditions of arising; to loosen their grip and therapeutically liberate those philosophers suffering from them (including oneself). The book contrasts such paradoxes with real, 'lived paradoxes': paradoxes that are genuinely experienced outside of the philosopher's study, in everyday life. Thus Read explores instances of lived paradox (such as paradoxes of self-hatred and of denial of other humans' humanity) and the harm they can cause, psychically, morally or politically. These lived paradoxes, he argues, sometimes cannot be dissolved using a Wittgensteinian treatment. Moreover, in some cases they do not need to be: for some, such as the paradoxical practices of Zen Buddhism (and indeed of Wittgenstein himself), can in fact be beneficial. The book shows how, once philosophers' paradoxes have been exorcized, real lived paradoxes can be given their due.

Wittgenstein among the Sciences - Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method' (Hardcover, New Ed):... Wittgenstein among the Sciences - Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method' (Hardcover, New Ed)
Rupert Read, Edited by Simon Summers
R4,170 Discovery Miles 41 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation. In other words, Read pursues a 'therapeutic' approach to the issue of the status and nature of these subjects. Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines are analysed. A novel and significant contribution to social science methodology and the philosophy of science and 'the human sciences', this book will be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, as well as to psychiatrists, economists and cognitive scientists.

Beyond The Tractatus Wars - The New Wittgenstein Debate (Paperback, New): Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery Beyond The Tractatus Wars - The New Wittgenstein Debate (Paperback, New)
Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery
R1,380 Discovery Miles 13 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "resolute" reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate about Wittgenstein and his philosophy, and this book draws together the latest thinking of the world's leading Tractatarian scholars and promising newcomers. Showcasing one piece alternately from each "camp", Beyond the Tractatus Wars pairs newly commissioned pieces addressing differing views on how to understand early Wittgenstein, providing for the first time an arena in which the debate between "strong" resolutists, "mild" resolutists and "elucidatory" readers of the book can really take place. The collection includes famous "samizdat" essays by Warren Goldfarb and Roger White that are finally seeing the light of day.

There is No Such Thing as a Social Science - In Defence of Peter Winch (Hardcover, New edition): Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read,... There is No Such Thing as a Social Science - In Defence of Peter Winch (Hardcover, New edition)
Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock
R4,297 Discovery Miles 42 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns. Re-establishing a Winchian voice, the authors examine how such contentions involve a failure to understand central themes in Winch's writings and that the issues which occupied him in his Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy and later papers remain central to social studies. The volume offers a careful reading of the text in alliance with Wittgensteinian insights and alongside a focus on the nature and results of social thought and inquiry. It draws parallels with other movements in the social studies, notably ethnomethodology, to demonstrate how Winch's central claim is both more significant and more difficult to transcend than sociologists and philosophers have hitherto imagined.

The New Hume Debate - Revised Edition (Hardcover, New): Rupert Read, Kenneth Richman The New Hume Debate - Revised Edition (Hardcover, New)
Rupert Read, Kenneth Richman
R3,886 Discovery Miles 38 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The New Wittgenstein (Hardcover): Alice Crary, Rupert Read The New Wittgenstein (Hardcover)
Alice Crary, Rupert Read
R3,488 Discovery Miles 34 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction
Part 1 Wittgenstein's later writings: the illusory comfort of an external standpoint
1. Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language Stanley Cavell 2. Non-cognitivism and rule-following John McDowell 3. Wittgenstein on rules and platonism David H. Finkelstein 4. What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean Rupert Read 5. Wittgenstein on deconstruction Martin Stone 6. Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought Alice Crary
Part 2 The Tractatus as forerunner of Wittgenstein's later writings
7. Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Cora Diamond 8. Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein James Conant 9. Rethinking mathematical necessity Hilary Putnam 10. Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy Juliet Floyd 1. Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the Tractatus Cora Diamond 12. How to do things with wood: Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought David R. Cerbone 13. Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein Edward Witherspoon
A dissenting voice
14. Was he trying to whistle it? P.M.S. Hacker
Bibliography Index

Why Climate Breakdown Matters (Hardcover): Rupert Read Why Climate Breakdown Matters (Hardcover)
Rupert Read
R2,333 Discovery Miles 23 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.

A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment (Hardcover): Rupert Read A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Rupert Read
R3,878 Discovery Miles 38 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films-one explored in greater detail and the other analyzed as a minor key which reveals the possibility for the book's ideas to be applied across different films, registers, and genres. The readings are not only interpretive, but they offer a way of thinking and feeling about, with, and through films which is genuinely transformative. Rupert Read's main contention is that certain films can bring about a change in how we see the world. He advocates an ecological approach to film-philosophy analysis, arguing that film can re-shape the viewer's relationship to the environment and other living beings. The transformative 'wake-up call' of these films is enlightenment in its true sense. The result is a book that ambitiously aims to change, though film, how we think of ourselves and our place in the world, at a time when such change is more needed than ever before.

Parents for a Future (Paperback): Rupert Read Parents for a Future (Paperback)
Rupert Read
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The New Hume Debate - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed): Rupert Read, Kenneth Richman The New Hume Debate - Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Rupert Read, Kenneth Richman
R1,335 Discovery Miles 13 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For decades scholars thought they knew Hume's position on the existence of causes and objects - he was a sceptic. However, this received view has been thrown into question by the 'new' readings of Hume as a sceptical realist.

For philosophers, students of philosophy and others interested in theories of causation and their history, The New Hume Debate is the first book to fully document the most influential contemporary readings of Hume's work. Throughout, the volume brings the debate beyond textual issues in Hume to contemporary philosophical issues concerning causation and knowledge of the external world and issue in the history of philosophy, offering the reader a model for scholarly debate.

This revised paperback edition includes three new chapters by Janet Broughton, Peter Kail and Peter Millican.

Contributors: Kenneth A. Richman, Barry Stroud, Galen Strawson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John P. Wright, Simon Blackburn, Edward Craig, Martin Bell, Daniel Flage, Anne Jaap Jacobson, Rupert Read, Janet Broughton, Peter Millican, Peter Kail.

The New Wittgenstein (Paperback): Alice Crary, Rupert Read The New Wittgenstein (Paperback)
Alice Crary, Rupert Read
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The New Wittgenstein offers a major re-evaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. This book is a stellar collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein. The essays clarify Wittgenstein's modes of philosophical criticism and shed light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical traditions and areas of human concern. With essays by Stanley Cavell, James Conant, Cora Diamond, Peter Winch and Hilary Putnam, we see the emergence of a new way of understanding Wittgenstein's thought.

Beyond The Tractatus Wars - The New Wittgenstein Debate (Hardcover): Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery Beyond The Tractatus Wars - The New Wittgenstein Debate (Hardcover)
Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery
R3,876 Discovery Miles 38 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "resolute" reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate about Wittgenstein and his philosophy, and this book draws together the latest thinking of the world's leading Tractatarian scholars and promising newcomers. Showcasing one piece alternately from each "camp", Beyond the Tractatus Wars pairs newly commissioned pieces addressing differing views on how to understand early Wittgenstein, providing for the first time an arena in which the debate between "strong" resolutists, "mild" resolutists and "elucidatory" readers of the book can really take place. The collection includes famous "samizdat" essays by Warren Goldfarb and Roger White that are finally seeing the light of day.

Why Climate Breakdown Matters (Paperback): Rupert Read Why Climate Breakdown Matters (Paperback)
Rupert Read
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.

Do you want to know the truth? The surprising rewards of climate honesty (Paperback): Rupert Read Do you want to know the truth? The surprising rewards of climate honesty (Paperback)
Rupert Read
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Extinction Rebellion - Insights from the Inside (Paperback): Rupert Read Extinction Rebellion - Insights from the Inside (Paperback)
Rupert Read; Edited by Samuel Alexander
R457 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This Civilisation is Finished - Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond (Paperback): Rupert Read, Samuel... This Civilisation is Finished - Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond (Paperback)
Rupert Read, Samuel Alexander
R419 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R74 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophy for Life - Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture (Paperback): M. A. Lavery Philosophy for Life - Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture (Paperback)
M. A. Lavery; Rupert Read
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Philosophy for Life" is a bold call for the practice of philosophy in our everyday lives. Philosopher and writer Rupert Read explores a series of important and often provocative contemporary political and cultural issues from a philosophical perspective, arguing that philosophy is not a body of doctrine, but a practice, a vantage point from which life should be analysed and, more importantly, acted upon. "Philosophy for Life" is a personal journey that explores four key areas of society today: Politics, Religion, Art, and the Environment. Taking tangible examples from modern politics, from climate change to the war on terror, and culture, from Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy to the poetry of TS Eliot, Read shows that philosophy is already an active part of today's world. This captivating and timely book offers a philosophical response to some of the key questions facing today's society and encourages us to use philosophy as a kind of therapy. "Philosophy for Life" shows that we can improve our perspective on the world and our place in it by doing philosophy everyday.

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