Brian Mcguinness

Approaches to Wittgenstein

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy, and aesthetic attitudes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415032612
• ISBN-10: 041503261X
• Artikelnr.: 22126965

Autorenporträt

Brian McGuiness was previously a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor at the University of Siena in Ital;y. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. He has translated (with Davd Pears) Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1961) and Prototractatus (1971), both published by Routledge. He is author of the acclaimed biography, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Preface. I. The Man - 1. 'The lion speaks, and we don't
understand.' Wittgenstein after 100 years. 2. Philosophy and Biography 3.
Asceticism and Ornament 4. The Idea of Jewishness 5. 'It will be terrible
afterwards, whoever wins' II. The Tractatus - 6. The Path to Tractatus 7.
Pictures and Form 8. The So-called Realism of Tractatus 9. Language and
Reality 10. The Grundgedanke of the Tractatus 11. Philosophy of Science 12.
The Value of Science 13. Solipsism 14. Mysticism 15. The Unsayable: a
Genetic Account III. Philosophy Revisited - 16. Wittgenstein and the Vienna
Circle 17. Relations with and within the Circle 18. Probability 19.
Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind 20. Freud and Wittgenstein
21. On Certainty: Comments on a paper by G.H. von Wright IV. Philologica
22. Bertrand Russell and the Notes on Logic 23. Some Pre-Tractatus
Manuscripts 24. Manuscripts and Works in the 1930s.