Wittgenstein, a Life
Author: Brian McGuinness
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780520064966
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Wittgenstein and the Moral Life
Author: Cora Diamond
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0262532867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by leading scholars that take as their point of departure Cora Diamond's work on the unity of Wittgenstein's thought and her writings on moral philosophy.
Wittgenstein
Author: James C. Klagge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521008686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays exploring the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy.
Wittgenstein's Form of Life
Author: David Kishik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1441118063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWittgenstein's Form of Life reveals the intricate relationship between language and life throughout Ludwig Wittgenstein's work. Drawing on the entire corpus of his writings, David Kishik offers a synoptic view of Wittgenstein's evolving thought by considering the notion of form of life as its vanishing center. The book takes its cue from the idea that 'to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life', in order to present the first holistic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy in the spirit of a new wave of interpretations, pioneered by Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond and James Conant. It is also an enticing contribution to the rising discourse revolving around the subject of life, led by the recent work of Giorgio Agamben. Standing on the threshold between the Analytic and the Continental philosophical traditions, Kishik shows how Wittgenstein's philosophy of language points toward a new philosophy of life, thereby making a unique contribution to our ethical and political thought.
Leading a Human Life
Author: Richard Eldridge
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997-10-27
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0226203131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning from the Kantian and post-Kantian efforts to maintain a connection between intentionality and conscience, but without assuming any dogmatic metaphysical system, Richard Eldridge argues in Leading a Human Life that human persons are caught up in a continuing effort to bring their intentionality and powers of practical reason to full and fit expression. Contrary to the claims of both dogmatism and naturalism, human life remains haunted by the question, "How might I, in interaction with those around me, effectively form and choose a life of expressive freedom?".
This Complicated Form of Life
Author: Newton Garver
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780812692532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar from overthrowing or stepping outside that tradition, Wittgenstein builds on it, draws from it, and contributes brilliantly to the fruition of certain elements in it. In This Complicated Form of Life, Garver analyzes from several angles Wittgenstein's relationship to Kant, and to what Finch has called Wittgenstein's completion of Kant's revolt against the Cartesian hegemony of epistemology in philosophy.
The World As I Found It
Author: Bruce Duffy
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2011-12-28
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1590175654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by its daring reimagining of the lives of three very different men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A brilliant group portrait with the vertiginous displacements of twentieth-century life looming large in the background, Duffy’s novel depicts times and places as various as Vienna 1900, the trenches of World War I, Bloomsbury, and the colleges of Cambridge, while the complicated main characters appear not only in thought and dispute but in love and despair. Wittgenstein, a strange, troubled, and troubling man of gnawing contradictions, is at the center of a novel that reminds us that the apparently abstract and formal questions that animate philosophy are nothing less than the intractable matters of life and death.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Author: Ray Monk
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-03-31
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1448112672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Author: Edward Kanterian
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2007-05-30
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781861893208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA readable and concise account, Ludwig Wittgenstein is an informative, accessible introduction to the one of the greatest thinkers of our age.
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-02-22
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0191540382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLudwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
