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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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