Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Wittgenstein and Nietzsche

Author: Shunichi Takagi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-19

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1003831788

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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.

The Importance of Nietzsche
The Importance of Nietzsche

Author: Erich Heller

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-12-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0226326381

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

Notebooks, 1914-1916
Notebooks, 1914-1916

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1984-01-15

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0226904474

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English and German. Includes index.

Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide
Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide

Author: Paolo Stellino

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 3030539377

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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.

Waking to Wonder
Waking to Wonder

Author: Gordon C.F. Bearn

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-01-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780791430309

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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

Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy

Author: Alain Badiou

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1788734645

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Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence—showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning—Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, truth to an effect of language games, and philosophy to a series of esoteric aphorisms. in the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein’s anti-philosophy, Badiou sets out and refines his own definitions of the universal truths that condition philosophy. Bruno Bosteels’ introduction shows that this encounter with Wittgenstein is central to Badiou’s overall project—and that a continuing dialogue with the exemplar of anti-philosophy is crucial for contemporary philosophy.

The Literary Wittgenstein
The Literary Wittgenstein

Author: John Gibson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780415289733

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A stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature, written by the most prominent figures in the field.

Doubt, Ethics and Religion
Doubt, Ethics and Religion

Author: Luigi Perissinotto

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 3110321882

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This book explores Wittgenstein's conception of ethics, religion and philosophy. It aims at providing us with the tools necessary for assessing to what extent the Austrian philosopher can be considered an anti-Enlightenment thinker. The articles collected in this volume explore the relationship between Wittgenstein's thought and that of several authors who were, in various ways, key to the counter-enlightenement, authors such as Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, James and Pierce. One of the central issues examined here is Wittgenstein's opposition to the Cartesian method of doubt – a cornerstone of the enlightened movement against prejudice and superstition.

From Nietzsche to Wittgenstein
From Nietzsche to Wittgenstein

Author: Glen T. Martin

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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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.

Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

Author: A. C. Grayling

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-02-22

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0191540382

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Ludwig 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.