Wittgenstein At His Word. Duncan Richter

Wittgenstein At His Word



Download Wittgenstein At His Word



Wittgenstein At His Word Duncan Richter ebook pdf
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Page: 208
ISBN: 082647473X, 9780826474735

Wittgenstein's work is notoriously difficult to understand and, at least superficially, deals almost exclusively with obscure and technical problems in logic and the philosophy of language. He has been blamed for leading philosophers away from the problems of the real world. However, Wittgenstein himself certainly was a man of the real world. He once asked rhetorically: 'What is the use of philosophy ... if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life?'. From this and other remarks it is clear that his philosophical work was meant to have real practical value. This book explains how Wittgenstein's idea of the value of philosophy shaped his philosophical method and led him to talk and write about the abstruse questions he dealt with in most of his work.

This is not just another introductory overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy. It is one of the few that provide such an overview while also referring constantly to ethics and religion (which is significant because Wittgenstein famously said that he saw every problem from a religious point of view and that his aim, at least in the Tractatus, was ethical). Moreover, its interpretation of Wittgenstein is far from orthodox. Standard treatments of his work disregard or downplay his claims about what he was doing and why. Duncan Richter takes him at his word, showing the connections between Wittgenstein's aims, the various subjects he worked on (psychology, religion, aesthetics, etc.) and the way in which he worked on them.



MORE EBOOKS:
Cracking the GMAT, 2008 Edition download pdf
New Market Timing Techniques download ebook
Download ebook: Midnight Angels
Secrets of Winning Slots: Learn How to Beat the Casino at Slots! download ebook
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek pdf download







Tags: Wittgenstein At His Word ebook pdf djvu epub
Wittgenstein At His Word download pdf epub djvu
Download Wittgenstein At His Word free ebook pdf
Read Wittgenstein At His Word online book
Wittgenstein At His Word cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Wittgenstein At His Word download book
Duncan Richter ebooks
Wittgenstein At His Word download pdf rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent