Between Wittgenstein And Weil

Author : Jack Manzi
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2024
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1003300073

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"This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa. The chapters cover different aspects of Weil's and Wittgenstein's philosophy including their religious thought and their views on ethics and meta-philosophy. They address the following questions: How does Wittgenstein's struggle with religious belief match up with Simone Weil's own struggle with organised belief? What is the role of the mystical and supernatural in their works? How much impact has various posthumous editorial decisions had on the shaping of Weil's and Wittgenstein's thought? Is there any significance to similarities in Weil and Wittgenstein's written and philosophical styles? How do Weil and Wittgenstein conceive of the 'self' and its role in philosophical thinking? What role does belief play in Weil and Wittgenstein's respective philosophical works? Between Wittgenstein and Weil will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in 20th-century philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and the history of moral philosophy"--

Author : Jack Manzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000996524

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Between Wittgenstein and Weil by Jack Manzi Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa. The chapters cover different aspects of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy, including their religious thought and their views on ethics and metaphilosophy. They address the following questions: How does Wittgenstein’s struggle with religious belief match up with Simone Weil’s own struggle with organised belief? What is the role of the mystical and supernatural in their works? How much impact has various posthumous editorial decisions had on the shaping of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s thought? Is there any significance to similarities in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s written and philosophical styles? How do Weil and Wittgenstein conceive of the ‘self’ and its role in philosophical thinking? What role does belief play in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s respective philosophical works? Between Wittgenstein and Weil will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in twentieth-century philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and the history of moral philosophy.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268092917

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Simone Weil by Simone Weil Pdf

Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909–43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies, and women’s studies are often ignorant of or baffled by her philosophical investigations. In Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings, Eric O. Springsted presents a unique collection of Weil’s writings, one concentrating on her explicitly philosophical thinking. The essays are drawn chiefly from the time Weil spent in Marseille in 1940-42, as well as one written from London; most have been out of print for some time; three appear for the first time; all are newly translated. Beyond making important texts available, this selection provides the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. This volume is important not only for those with a general interest in Weil; it also specifically presents Weil as a philosopher, chiefly one interested in questions of the nature of value, moral thought, and the relation of faith and reason. What also appears through this judicious selection is an important confirmation that on many issues respecting the nature of philosophy, Weil, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard shared a great deal.

Author : Sascha Bru,Wolfgang Huemer,Daniel Steuer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Peter Winch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521317436

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Simone Weil: "The Just Balance" by Peter Winch Pdf

This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew. It also explores illuminating parallels between these ideas and ideas that were simultaneously being developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Simone Weil developed a conception of the relation between human beings and nature which made it difficult for her to explain mutual understanding and justice. Her wrestling with this difficulty coincided with a considerable sharpening of her religious sensibility, and led to a new concept of the natural and social orders involving a supernatural dimension, within which the concepts of beauty and justice are paramount. Professor Winch provides a fresh perspective on the complete span of Simone Weil's work, and discusses the fundamental difficulties of tracing the dividing line between philosophy and religion.

Author : Rush Rhees,Mario von der Ruhr
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015048852035

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Discussions of Simone Weil by Rush Rhees,Mario von der Ruhr Pdf

A distinguished discussion of Weil's views on social philosophy, science, ethics, and religion.

Author : Palle Yourgrau
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861899989

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Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau Pdf

Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent, England, at the age of thirty-four. During her brief lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and reclusive introversion who also maintained a teaching career and an active participation in politics. In this concise biography, Palle Yourgrau outlines Weil’s influential life and work and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life. Born in Paris to a cultivated Jewish-French family, Weil excelled at philosophy, and her empathetic political conscience channeled itself into political engagement and activism on behalf of the working class. Yourgrau assesses Weil’s controversial critique of Judaism as well as her radical re-imagination of Christianity—following a powerful religious experience in 1937—in light of Plato’s philosophy as a bridge between human suffering and divine perfection. In Simone Weil, Yourgrau provides careful, concise readings of Weil’s work while exploring how Weil has come to be seen as both a modern saint and a bête noir, a Jew accused of having abandoned her own people in their hour of greatest need.

Author : Michael Campbell,Lynette Reid
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030407421

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Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch by Michael Campbell,Lynette Reid Pdf

This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his contemporaries due to a mistaken belief that there are no systematic connections between the different aspects of his work. This volume corrects that presupposition and reintroduces Winch's work to a new generation of scholars. By showing how ethical, political and social issues are interrelated in Winch's work, and by making clear the connections between these issues and themes in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, the volume demonstrates both the breadth and the unity of Winch's approach. It discusses topics such as ethics, political philosophy, social science, the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Despite this apparent variety of topics, the contributors to the volume share Winch's conviction that the different areas of philosophy are interdependent. As a result, the volume as a whole shows unity in diversity and provides an example of a manner of philosophising in which different approaches and sub-disciplines are placed in dialogue with each other. Peter Guy Winch is most famous for his early work on the philosophy of the social sciences. His On the Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (ISS) generated controversy within both philosophical and social scientific circles. In that work and subsequent publications Winch argued against the presupposition that social relations could be understood using the conceptual tools of the natural sciences. Winch would later describe ISS as a 'young man's book' and would come to regret the reputation it garnered him - a mixture of roughly equal degrees fame and infamy. Alongside his work on the philosophy of social sciences, Winch was an interpreter and exegete of Wittgenstein. He also published a ground-breaking study of the philosophy of Simone Weil, entitled Simone Weil: The Just Balance. Winch also published numerous essays on issues in ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion, and at his death was working on a book manuscript on the problem of political authority.

Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521432634

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Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture by Richard H. Bell Pdf

This is an excellent treatment, by fourteen distinguished scholars, of some of the central strands in the philosophy of Simone Weil.

Author : Reshef Agam-Segal,Edmund Dain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351720304

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Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought by Reshef Agam-Segal,Edmund Dain Pdf

Wittgenstein’s work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s thought has much to contribute to our understanding of this fundamental area of philosophy and of our lives. They take up a variety of different perspectives on this aspect of Wittgenstein’s work, and explore the significance of Wittgenstein’s moral thought throughout his work, from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Wittgenstein’s startling claim there that there can be no ethical propositions, to the Philosophical Investigations.

Author : Royal Institute of Philosophy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1974-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349155460

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Understanding Wittgenstein by Royal Institute of Philosophy Pdf

Author : Salla Aldrin Salskov,Ondřej Beran,Nora Hämäläinen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030980849

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Ethical Inquiries after Wittgenstein by Salla Aldrin Salskov,Ondřej Beran,Nora Hämäläinen Pdf

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein’s broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection. It takes the ethical relevance of Wittgenstein as a substantial and solid starting point for a broad range of ongoing thinking about contemporary ethical issues. The texts are organised in two sections. The first consists of chapters exploring questions around what could be called the “grammar” of our moral forms of life, and thus represents a more traditional approach in ethics after Wittgenstein. The second part represents a recent turn in the tradition towards investigating moral conceptions, perspectives and concepts that are undergoing change, either because the world itself is changing (for instance with new technologies) or because human agency, such as social movements, has brought us to reconsider previously unquestioned ideas and structures. Within the book, the authors’ contributions are inspired, in their ways of working with ethical questions, by Wittgenstein’s conceptions of language, understanding and the nature of philosophical inquiry. This book is of interest to philosophers influenced by Wittgenstein, as well as to all ethicists seeking ideas for how to do philosophy in a manner close to lived experience and practice.

Author : Martin Klebes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135487881

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Wittgenstein's Novels by Martin Klebes Pdf

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more pervasive than other equally renowned twentieth century philosophers and asks why some authors such as Händler and Roubaud, are less well-known and only partially translated into English.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521293332

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Lectures on Philosophy by Simone Weil Pdf

Derived from Weil's lectures, the collection presents a general introduction to philosophy, ranging widely over problems about perception, mind, language, and reasoning, as well as problems in moral and political philosophy.

Author : Maurice O’Connor Drury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474256384

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The Selected Writings of Maurice O’Connor Drury by Maurice O’Connor Drury Pdf

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher, from his decision to become a doctor to his later work in psychiatry. The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicine. Central to the collection is the Danger of Words, the 1973 text described by Ray Monk as 'the most truly Wittgensteinian book published by any of Wittgenstein's students'. Through notes on conversations with Wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with Rush Rhees, Drury gives shape to what he had learned from Wittgenstein. Whether discussing methods of philosophy, Simone Weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of Wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatry. With an introduction presenting a new biography of Drury, analysing the relationship between him and Wittgenstein, The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury features previously unpublished archival sources. Beautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of Wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.