Portraits Of Wittgenstein

Author : F.A. Flowers III,Ian Ground
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350046610

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Portraits of Wittgenstein by F.A. Flowers III,Ian Ground Pdf

Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein's extraordinary life, this unique collection reveals Wittgenstein's character and power of personality more vividly and comprehensively than ever before. With portraits from more than 50 figures, Portraits of Wittgenstein brings together the personal recollections of philosophers, students, friends and acquaintances, including Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, F. R. Leavis, A. J. Ayer, Karl Popper, Friedrich von Hayek, G. H. von Wright, Freeman Dyson, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Mary Warnock. These authors testify to the life-long influence Wittgenstein had on the lives of those he met. Their fascinating memoirs, reflections and commentaries, often at odds with each other, reveal Wittgenstein's kindness, and how much genuine friendship meant to him, as well as his suffering and despair. They show too how the philosopher's ruthless honesty and uncompromising integrity often resulted in stern advice and harsh rebukes to friends and foes alike. Now abridged and available in paperback, this collection of valuable and hard-to-find material is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Author : F. A. Flowers
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025948923

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Portraits of Wittgenstein by F. A. Flowers Pdf

This work features a collection of memoirs, recollections and articles on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), primarily by those who knew him. It reveals many features of his character and his influence on the lifes of those he met. Personalities in his intellectual and social circle included Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, F.R. Leavis. A.J. Ayer, Karl Popper, G.H. von Wright, and Rush Rees.

Author : F. A. Flowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025948931

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Portraits of Wittgenstein by F. A. Flowers Pdf

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742512703

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Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ludwig Wittgenstein Pdf

For Wittgenstein, philosophy was an on-going activity. Only in his dialog with the philosophical community and in his private moments does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully come to light. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Hingo Weber
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514757311

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Wittgenstein by Hingo Weber Pdf

Bilingual edition: English - Portuguese.Among all beings, the human beings are the only ones who are born inside out, because they come into the world to, at every act, recall a fullness that was lost at the exact moment of their birth. However, every act of existence is increasingly a forgotten act. The philosopher is the one who has this more clearly present; therefore, his disturbance at the surface of language is always greater, subjecting himself, when writing or philosophizing, to greater dangers than others who do not have this purpose.Entre todos os seres, o ser humano é o único que nasce às avessas, pois vem ao mundo para, a cada ato, recordar uma plenitude que perdeu no exato momento de seu nascimento. No entanto, cada ato do existir é cada vez mais um ato de esquecimento. O filósofo é aquele que tem isso mais claramente presente; por isso, sua perturbação à superfície da linguagem é sempre maior, sujeitando-se, ao escrever ou filosofar, a maiores perigos do que outros que não têm esse propósito.

Author : Jonathan Rée
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300248807

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Witcraft by Jonathan Rée Pdf

An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.

Author : Nuno Venturinha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136179983

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The Textual Genesis of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations by Nuno Venturinha Pdf

Sixty years after its first edition, there is an increasing consensus among scholars that the work posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations represents something that is far from a complete picture of Wittgenstein’s second book project. G.H. von Wright’s seminal research on the Nachlass was an important contribution in this direction, showing that the Wittgenstein papers can reveal much more than the source of specific remarks. This book specifically explores Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations from the different angles of its originary conceptions, including the mathematical texts, shedding new light on fundamental issues in twentieth century and contemporary philosophy. Leading authorities in the field focus on newly published or hitherto unpublished sources for the interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later work and a Wittgenstein typescript, translated for the first time into English, is included as an appendix.

Author : Michael A. Peters,Jeff Stickney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811084119

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Wittgenstein’s Education: 'A Picture Held Us Captive’ by Michael A. Peters,Jeff Stickney Pdf

Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator. Arguing for the centrality of education to Wittgenstein’s life and works, the authors resist any reduction of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to remarks on pedagogy while addressing the current controversy surrounding the role of training in the enculturation process. Significant events in his education and life are examined as the background for successful interpretation, without lending biographical details explanatory force. The book discusses the importance of Wittgenstein’s training and dismissal as an elementary teacher (1920-26) in light of his later, frequent use (1930s-40s) of many ‘scenes of instruction’ in his Cambridge lectures and notebooks. These depictions culminated in his now famous Philosophical Investigations -- a counter to his earlier philosophy in the Tractatus. Wittgenstein came to distinguish between empirical inquiries into how education, language or mathematics might ideally work, from grammatical studies of how we learn on the rough ground to normatively go-on as others do – often without explicit rules and with considerable degrees of ambiguity, for instance, in implementing new guidelines during a curriculum reform or in evaluating teachers. The book argues that Wittgenstein’s reflections on education -- spanning from mathematics training to the acquisition of language and cultivation of aesthetic appreciation -- are of central significance to both the man and his pedagogical style of philosophy.

Author : Hugo Strandberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317019718

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The Possibility of Discussion by Hugo Strandberg Pdf

Answering the question 'How is fruitful discussion possible?', this book addresses the central philosophical issue of how reason shall be understood and how it is limited. This study argues that the understanding of discussion according to which it necessarily starts from putative universal norms and rules for argumentation is problematic, among other reasons since such rules are unfruitful in contexts where there are vast disagreements such as religion. Inspired by Wittgensteinian ideas, Strandberg develops instead a new way of understanding discussion, truth and rationality which escapes these problems, and shows how this solution can be used to answer the accusation against Wittgensteinian philosophy for being conservative and resulting in fideism.

Author : Yuval Lurie
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042035171

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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit by Yuval Lurie Pdf

Provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein's discourse as an edifyng philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. Investigates the conceptual underpinnings of culture, revealing them as shared expressive spiritual forms of life.

Author : Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402041099

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths by Jaakko Hintikka Pdf

IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters? Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he is saying? A partial reason is outlined in the first essay of this volume. Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was trying to get clear about. He was even too impatient to explain in full his earlier solutions, often merely referring to them casually as it were in a shorthand notation. For one important instance, in The Brown Book, Wittgenstein had explained in some detail what name-object relationships amount to in his view. There he offers both an explanation of what his problem is and an account of his own view illustrated by means of specific examples of language-games. But when he raises the same question again in Philosophical Investigations I, sec.

Author : Max Kölbel,Bernhard Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134406173

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Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance by Max Kölbel,Bernhard Weiss Pdf

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence and why has it proved so enduring? In Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, twelve contemporary philosophers explore the issues surrounding Wittgenstein's importance and relevance to modern thought. Their articles, all of which are published here for the first time, cover the entirety of Wittgenstein's major publications: the Tracatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, On Certainty and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. They discuss how much originality and continuity can be found in Wittgenstein's thought, how he relates to current traditions and movements within philosophy, and what we can learn from his conceptions of language, knowledge, mathematics and logic. The international set of contributors are renowned for their work in both Wittgenstein studies and other fields of philosophy, making Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance an important collection for anyone interested in contemporary philosophy.

Author : Ray Monk
Publisher : Random House
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448112678

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Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ray Monk Pdf

'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times 'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's philosophy with his life triumphantly carries out the Wittgensteinian task of "changing the aspect" of Wittgenstein's work, getting us to see it in a new way' Sunday Telegraph 'This biography transforms Wittgenstein into a human being' Independent on Sunday 'It is much to be recommended' Observer 'Monk's biography is deeply intelligent, generous to the ordinary reader... It is a beautiful portrait of a beautiful life' Guardian

Author : Béla Szabados
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0773438173

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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Race, Gender, and Cultural Identity by Béla Szabados Pdf

This book challenges conventional portraits of Ludwig Wittgenstein that narrowly depict him as a philosopher's philosopher. Rather, this study demonstrates Wittgenstein's engagement with social, ethical and cultural questions, including aspects of "otherness."

Author : James C. Klagge
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262365536

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Wittgenstein's Artillery by James C. Klagge Pdf

How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, "Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry." In Wittgenstein's Artillery, James Klagge shows how, in search of ways to reach his audience, Wittgenstein tried a more poetic style of doing philosophy. Klagge argues that, deploying this new philosophical "artillery"--Klagge's term for Wittgenstein's methods of influencing his readers and students--Wittgenstein moved from an esoteric mode to an evangelical mode, aiming for an effect on his audience that was noncognitive, appealing to the temperament in addition to the intellect. Wittgenstein was an artillery spotter--directing artillery fire to targets--in the Austrian army during World War I, and Klagge argues that, years later, he became a philosophical spotter, struggling to find the right artillery to accomplish his philosophical purpose. Klagge shows how Wittgenstein's work with his students influenced his style of writing philosophy and motivated him to care about the effect of his ideas on his audience. To illustrate Wittgenstein's evolving approach, Klagge draws on not only Wittgenstein's best-known works but also such lesser-known material as notebooks, dictations, lectures, and recollections of students. Klagge then goes beyond Wittgenstein to present a range of literature--biblical parables and children's stories, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche--as other examples of the poetic approach. He concludes by offering his own attempts at a poetic approach to addressing philosophical issues.