Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy

Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy

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  • Author: Rupert Read
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100028882X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 380

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

Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy

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  • Author: Rupert Read
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781003090977
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

"In this book, Rupert Read outlines the first 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"--


Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  • Author: Ambrose, Alice and Lazerowtiz, Morris
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317833805
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Marx and Wittgenstein

Marx and Wittgenstein

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  • Author: Gavin Kitching
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134538545
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 341

At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasising the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. Essential reading for all scholars and philosophers interested in the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Wittgenstein, this book will also be of vital interest to those studying and researching in the fields of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of social science and political economy.


Shifting Ground

Shifting Ground

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  • Author: Naomi Scheman
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0195395115
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.


Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  • Author: Ambrose, Alice and Lazerowtiz, Morris
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317833813
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Ludwig Wittgenstein: The later Wittgenstein : from Philosophical investigations to On certainty

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The later Wittgenstein : from Philosophical investigations to On certainty

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  • Author: Stuart Shanker
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415149150
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to the thriving state of contemporary philosophy. In response to this ever-growing interest in the field, we are delighted to announce the publication of a second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein, emphasising both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.As well as papers on the nature and method of Wittgenstein's philosophy, this second collection also relates to a broader range of topics, including psychology, politics, art, music and culture.


The New Wittgenstein

The New Wittgenstein

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  • Author: Alice Crary
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134689950
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

This text offers major re-evaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. It is a 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. This is a controversial collection, with essays by highly regarded Wittgenstein scholars that may change the way we look at Wittgenstein's body of work.


Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

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  • Author: Greg Chase
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 1316515257
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

An accessible investigation of the importance of Cavell's most famous work for modern and contemporary philosophy and literature.


Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy

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  • Author: Oswald Hanfling
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 1438405669
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 218

"Philosophy," wrote Wittgenstein, "simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything." Hanfling takes seriously Wittgenstein's declaration of what he was doing, emphasizing Wittgenstein's rejection of theory and explanation in favor of 'description alone.' He demonstrates the importance of Wittgenstein's philosophy to long-standing problems about language, knowledge, the mind, and philosophy itself. The book exposes common misunderstandings about Wittgenstein, and examines in detail the celebrated 'private language' argument.