Wittgenstein And Nietzsche

Author : Shunichi Takagi,Pascal F. Zambito
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003831785

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Wittgenstein and Nietzsche by Shunichi Takagi,Pascal F. Zambito Pdf

This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives. While some chapters focus on the philological and biographical connections of Wittgenstein’s reading of Nietzsche, others reflect on the ideas that are implicitly shared by the two thinkers. For Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, philosophy is inextricably connected to ethics and the arts and therefore takes a peculiar method that differs from the sciences. Nevertheless, their thinking strives for knowledge and truth by means of discursive text forms, however unconventional they may be. The first group of chapters contextualize explicit references to Nietzsche in Wittgenstein’s writings and clarify their philosophical function. In Part II, the contributors take a philosophical problem as their starting point and show how it can be illuminated by comparing or contrasting Wittgensteinian and Nietzschean arguments and methods. Together the chapters trace Nietzsche’s influence on Wittgenstein’s thought concerning the critique of language, ethics, aesthetics, religion, and philosophical method. Wittgenstein and Nietzsche will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the history of philosophy and intellectual history.

Author : Glen T. Martin
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nihilism (Philosophy).
ISBN : UCSC:32106013896532

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From Nietzsche to Wittgenstein by Glen T. Martin Pdf

This fascinating study offers a complete interpretation of the philosophies of both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. It finds in Nietzsche's philosophy an expression of the scepticism and relativism of the modern world to which he gave the name «nihilism.» If Nietzsche's conclusion that «there is no truth» poses the basic problematic of modernity, Professor Martin understands Wittgenstein's philosophy as addressing, in a radically new way, the overcoming of this nihilism. Martin offers a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's life work as focusing on «the groundlessness of the human situation» and as restoring «truth» to its legitimate place within the conventions of language. The final chapter explores the spiritual implications for modern man of seeing clearly «the limits» of human language.

Author : Shoshana Ronen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Secularism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112282897

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Nietzsche and Wittgenstein by Shoshana Ronen Pdf

Author : Antonio Cimino,Gert-Jan van der Heiden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501321245

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Rethinking Faith by Antonio Cimino,Gert-Jan van der Heiden Pdf

Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious motives is deeply ambiguous since new forms of metaphysical and religious experience re-emerge in his philosophical works. Heidegger shares this ambiguous relation to the notions of faith and religion with authors such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein whose works are also marked by a critique of metaphysics and by a characteristic rethinking of the role of faith and religion. In fact, all three still remain, among other things, reference points for contemporary philosophical debates relating to the phenomenon of religion and faith. Rethinking Faith explores how the phenomena of religion and faith are present in the works of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, and how these phenomena are brought into play in their discussion of the classical metaphysical motives they criticize.

Author : Philip Mills
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350300125

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A Poetic Philosophy of Language by Philip Mills Pdf

Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Through an expressivist philosophy of poetry, he argues that we can understand some of the core questions in the philosophy of language. Mills highlights the continuity of poetic language with ordinary language, and positions Nietzsche and Wittgenstein's thinking as the clearest way to expand the philosophy of poetry. By tracing the expressivist tradition of philosophy of language, this study locates its roots in German Romanticism right through to the work of contemporary expressivists such as Huw Price and Robert Brandom. Where poetry has been difficult to grasp with the traditional philosophical tools used by aestheticians, A Poetic Philosophy of Language operates at the crossroads between philosophy of art and language, proposing a new philosophy of poetry with wide-ranging potentialities.

Author : Erich Heller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226326373

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The Importance of Nietzsche by Erich Heller Pdf

Contains ten essays detailing the importance and influence of Nietzsche's works.

Author : Paolo Stellino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030539375

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Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide by Paolo Stellino Pdf

This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein - their arguments in favour or against suicide are explained, contextualized, examined and critically assessed. Taken together, these four perspectives provide an illuminating overview of the philosophical arguments that can be used for or against one’s right to commit suicide. Intended both for specialists and those interested in understanding the many complexities underlying the philosophical debate on suicide, this book combines philosophical depth with exemplary clarity.

Author : Gordon C.F. Bearn
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430308

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Waking to Wonder by Gordon C.F. Bearn Pdf

The central claim of this book is that, early and late, Wittgenstein modelled his approach to existential meaning on his account of linguistic meaning. A reading of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy sets up Bearn's reading of the existential point of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Bearn argues that both books try to resolve our anxiety about the meaning of life by appeal to the deep, unutterable essence of the world. Bearn argues that as Wittgenstein's and Nietzsche's thought matured, they both separately came to believe that the answer to our existential anxiety does not lie beneath the surfaces of our lives, but in our acceptance--Nietzsche's "Yes"--of the groundless details of those surfaces themselves: the wonder of the ordinary

Author : Lars Iyer
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612198132

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Nietzsche and the Burbs by Lars Iyer Pdf

In a work of blistering dark hilarity, a young Nietzsche experiences life in a metal band & the tribulations of finals season in a modern secondary school When a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a group of like-minded suburban stoners, artists, and outcasts—too smart and creative for their own good. His classmates nickname their new friend Nietzsche (for his braininess and bleak outlook on life), and decide he must be the front man of their metal band, now christened Nietzsche and the Burbs. With the abyss of graduation—not to mention their first gig—looming ahead, the group ramps up their experimentations with sex, drugs, and...nihilist philosophy. Are they as doomed as their intellectual heroes? And why does the end of youth feel like such a universal tragedy? And as they ponder life's biggies, this sly, elegant, and often laugh-out-loud funny story of would-be rebels becomes something special: an absorbing and stirring reminder of a particular, exciting yet bittersweet moment in life...and a reminder that all adolescents are philosophers, and all philosophers are adolescents at heart.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350183445

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Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics by Michael Smith Pdf

Exploring the rupture between Wittgenstein's early and late phases, Michael Smith provides an original re-assessment of the metaphysical consistencies that exist throughout his divergent texts. Smith shows how Wittgenstein's criticism of metaphysics typically invoked the very thing he was seeking to erase. Taking an alternative approach to the inherent contradiction in his work, the 'problem of metaphysics', as Smith terms it, becomes the organizing principle of Wittgenstein's thought rather than something to overcome. This metaphysical thread enables further reflection on the poetic nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy as well as his preoccupation with ethics and aesthetics as important factors mostly absent from the secondary literature. The turn to aesthetics is crucial to a re-assessment of Wittgenstein's legacy, and is done in conjunction with an innovative analysis of Nietzsche's critique of Kantian aesthetics and Kant's 'judgments of taste'. The result is a unique discussion of the limits and possibilities of metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics and the task of the philosopher more generally.

Author : Gordon C. F. Bearn
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430294

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Waking to Wonder by Gordon C. F. Bearn Pdf

The central claim of this book is that, early and late, Wittgenstein modelled his approach to existential meaning on his account of linguistic meaning. A reading of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy sets up Bearn's reading of the existential point of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Bearn argues that both books try to resolve our anxiety about the meaning of life by appeal to the deep, unutterable essence of the world. Bearn argues that as Wittgenstein's and Nietzsche's thought matured, they both separately came to believe that the answer to our existential anxiety does not lie beneath the surfaces of our lives, but in our acceptance--Nietzsche's "Yes"--of the groundless details of those surfaces themselves: the wonder of the ordinary

Author : A. L. Hosking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0953108996

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Wittgenstein and Nietzsche Dialogue by A. L. Hosking Pdf

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374715748

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Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag Pdf

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition. Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are."

Author : Jeff Smith-Luedke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435717053

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The Absurdity of Philosophy by Jeff Smith-Luedke Pdf

Jeff Smith-Luedke uses rudiments of logic and lingual philosophy. with broad strokes of reason, rationality and consistent argumentation, as well as anecdotes, humanism and descriptive word invention, to posit more specificity to our understanding of our language speaking history and condition.

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788734639

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Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou Pdf

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels's introduction argues that a continuing dialogue with Wittgenstein is inescapable for contemporary philosophy.