Augustine And Wittgenstein

Author : Kim Paffenroth,Alexander R. Eodice,John Doody
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498585279

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Augustine and Wittgenstein by Kim Paffenroth,Alexander R. Eodice,John Doody Pdf

This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like language-learning, will, memory, and time as prompts for his own philosophical explorations, and he found great inspiration in Augustine’s highly personalized and interlocutory style of writing philosophy. Each in his own way, in an effort to understand human experience more fully, adopts a mode of philosophizing that involves questioning, recognizing confusions, and confronting doubts. Beyond its bearing on such topics as language, meaning, knowledge, and will, their analysis extends to the nature of religious belief and its fundamental place in human experience. The essays collected here consider a broad range of themes, from issues regarding teaching, linguistic meaning, and self-understanding to miracles, ritual, and religion.

Author : Saint Augustine,St Augustine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258050358

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The Philosophy of Teaching by Saint Augustine,St Augustine Pdf

Author : Gareth B. Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520919587

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The Augustinian Tradition by Gareth B. Matthews Pdf

Augustine, probably the single thinker who did the most to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome, exerted a remarkable influence on medieval and modern thought, and he speaks forcefully and directly to twentieth-century readers as well. The most widely read of his writings today are, no doubt, his Confessions—the first significant autobiography in world literature—and The City of God. The preoccupations of those two works, like those of Augustine's less well-known writings, include self-examination, human motivation, dreams, skepticism, language, time, war, and history—topics that still fascinate and perplex us 1,600 years later. The Augustinian Tradition, like a number of recent single-authored books, expresses a new interest among contemporary philosophers in interpreting Augustine freshly for readers today. These articles, most of them written expressly for the book, present Augustine's ideas in a way that respects their historical context and the long history of their influence. Yet the authors, among whom are some of the best philosophers writing in English today, make clear the relevance of Augustine's ideas to present-day debates in philosophy, literary studies, and the history of ideas and religion. Students and scholars will find that these essays provide impressive evidence of the persisting vitality of Augustine's thought.

Author : Klaus Mollenhauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134685530

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Forgotten Connections by Klaus Mollenhauer Pdf

Klaus Mollenhauer’s Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing is internationally regarded as one of the most important German contributions to educational and curriculum theory in the 20th century. Appearing here in English for the first time, the book draws on Mollenhauer’s concern for social justice and his profound awareness of the pedagogical tension between the inheritance of the past and the promise of the future. The book focuses on the idea of Bildung, in which philosophy and education come together to see upbringing and maturation as being much more about holistic experience than skill development. This translation includes a detailed introduction from Norm Friesen, the book’s translator and editor. This introduction contextualizes the original publication and discusses its application to education today. Although Mollenhauer’s work focused on content and culture, particularly from a German perspective, this book draws on philosophy and sociology to offer internationally relevant responses to the challenge of communicating cultural values and understandings to new generations. Forgotten Connections will be of value to students, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of education and culture, curriculum studies, and in educational and social foundations.

Author : Michael Luntley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118978399

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Wittgenstein by Michael Luntley Pdf

In this provocatively compelling new book, Michael Luntley offers a revolutionary reading of the opening section of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations Critically engages with the most recent exegetical literature on Wittgenstein and other state-of-the-art philosophical work Encourages the re-incorporation of Wittgenstein studies into the mainstream philosophical conversation Has profound consequences for how we go on to read the rest of Wittgenstein’s major work Makes a significant contribution not only to the literature on Wittgenstein, but also to studies in philosophy of language

Author : Marie McGinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134832477

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn Pdf

This accessible and lucidly written guide introduces the student of Wittgenstein to his most important work, the Philosophical Investigations and assesses its relationship to contemporary philosophy.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein,Heikki Nyman,Alois Pichler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Felsefe
ISBN : 9780631205715

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Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein,Heikki Nyman,Alois Pichler Pdf

Foreword to the Edition of 1977 Foreword to the 1994 Edition Editorial Note Note by Translator Culture and Value A Poem Notes Appendix:List of Sources List of Sources, Arranged Alphanumerically Index of Beginnings of Remarks Subject Index Index of Names.

Author : Sascha Bru,Wolfgang Huemer,Daniel Steuer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110294699

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Wittgenstein Reading by Sascha Bru,Wolfgang Huemer,Daniel Steuer Pdf

Wittgenstein's thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors. Wittgenstein Reading approaches the moment of literature as a vehicle of self-reflection for Wittgenstein. What sounds, on the surface, like criticism (e.g. of Shakespeare) can equally be understood as a simple registration of Wittgenstein's own reaction, hence a piece of self-diagnosis or self-analysis. The book brings a representative sample of authors, from Shakespeare, Goethe, or Dostoyevsky to some that have received far less attention in Wittgenstein scholarship like Kleist, Lessing, or Wilhelm Busch and Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Furthermore, the volume offers means for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thoughts. Unique to this book is its internal design. The editors' introduction sets the scene with regards to both biography and theory, while each of the subsequent chapters takes a quotation from Wittgenstein on a particular author as its point of departure for developing a more specific theme relating to the writer in question. This format serves to avoid the well-trodden paths of discussions on the relationship between philosophy and literature, allowing for unconventional observations to be made. Furthermore, the volume offers means for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thoughts.

Author : Chris Lawn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826493774

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Wittgenstein and Gadamer by Chris Lawn Pdf

This is the first comparative study of the pioneering work on language of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Author : Miles Hollingworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190874001

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Ludwig Wittgenstein by Miles Hollingworth Pdf

After his intellectual biography, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical investigation has been pervasive, while his eccentric life has entered folklore. Yet his religious mysticism has remained elusive and undisturbed. In Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hollingworth continues to pioneer a new kind of biographical writing. It stands at the intersection of philosophy, theology and literary criticism, and is as much concerned with the secret agendas of life writing as it is with its Subjects. Here, Wittgenstein is allowed to become the ultimate test case. From first to last, his philosophy sought to demonstrate that intellectual certainty is a function of the method it employs, rather than a knowledge of the existence or non-existence of its objects--a devastating insight that appears to make the natural and the supernatural into equally useless examples of each other. This biography proceeds in the same way. Scattered in every direction by this challenge to meaning, it attempts to retrieve itself around the spirit of the man who could say such things. This act of recovery thus performs what could not otherwise be explained, which is something like Wittgenstein's private conversation with God.

Author : Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804785624

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In the Self's Place by Jean-Luc Marion Pdf

In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian corpus. Towards this end, Marion engages with noteworthy modern and postmodern analyses of Augustine's most "experiential" work, including the critical commentaries of Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Marion ultimately concludes that Augustine has preceded postmodernity in exploring an excess of the self over and beyond itself, and in using this alterity of the self to itself, as a driving force for creative relations with God, the world, and others. This reading establishes striking connections between accounts of selfhood across the fields of contemporary philosophy, literary studies, and Augustine's early Christianity.

Author : Kim Paffenroth,John Doody,Helene Tallon Russell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498561853

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Augustine and Kierkegaard by Kim Paffenroth,John Doody,Helene Tallon Russell Pdf

This volume is a continuation of our series exploring Saint Augustine’s influence on later thought, this time bringing the fifth century bishop into dialogue with 19th century philosopher, theologian, social critic, and originator of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard. The connections, contrasts, and sometimes surprising similarities of their thought are uncovered and analyzed in topics such as exile and pilgrimage, time and restlessness, inwardness and the church, as well as suffering, evil, and humility. The implications of this analysis are profound and far-reaching for theology, ecclesiology, and ethics.

Author : Emmanuel Bermon,Jean-Philippe Narboux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319635071

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Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations by Emmanuel Bermon,Jean-Philippe Narboux Pdf

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections §§1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening. The methodological conviction that subtends the volume is that the highly unconventional form assumed by the book is internal to its content and crucial to its reconception of the relation between logic and language. This disconcerting form is dictated by the new modes of criticism deployed by Wittgenstein as he engages the philosophical tradition in the new terms afforded by the revolutionary “method of language-games”. In the essays collected here, seven authors, including some of the most influential figures in the field, offer close and often unorthodox readings of pivotal passages from the beginning of the book. These readings are also shaped by the conviction that the Philosophical Investigations are hardly intelligible apart from an appreciation of the concerns that they inherit from Wittgenstein’s early work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The authors contend that we need to consider the continuities between the early and the later works if we are to disclose the true discontinuities between them.

Author : Roger Pouivet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NWU:35556038002739

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After Wittgenstein, St. Thomas by Roger Pouivet Pdf

Author : Chon Tejedor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847061423

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Starting with Wittgenstein by Chon Tejedor Pdf

Taking readers through key themes in Wittgenstein's thought, this is an essential introduction to one of the most important thinkers in 20th Century Philosophy.