Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: New Essays On §§1-88 (nordic Wittgenstein Studies)
by Emmanuel Bermon /
2017 / English / PDF
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This volume sheds a new light on
This volume sheds a new light onPhilosophical
Investigations
Philosophical
Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s master opus, by taking
a new approach to its first stretch (sections §§1-88), with
special emphasis on its atypical opening. The methodological
conviction that subtends the volume is that the highly
unconventional form assumed by the book is internal to its
content and crucial to its reconception of the relation between
logic and language. This disconcerting form is dictated by the
new modes of criticism deployed by Wittgenstein as he engages the
philosophical tradition in the new terms afforded by the
revolutionary “method of language-games”. In the essays collected
here, seven authors, including some of the most influential
figures in the field, offer close and often unorthodox readings
of pivotal passages from the beginning of the book. These
readings are also shaped by the conviction that the
, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s master opus, by taking
a new approach to its first stretch (sections §§1-88), with
special emphasis on its atypical opening. The methodological
conviction that subtends the volume is that the highly
unconventional form assumed by the book is internal to its
content and crucial to its reconception of the relation between
logic and language. This disconcerting form is dictated by the
new modes of criticism deployed by Wittgenstein as he engages the
philosophical tradition in the new terms afforded by the
revolutionary “method of language-games”. In the essays collected
here, seven authors, including some of the most influential
figures in the field, offer close and often unorthodox readings
of pivotal passages from the beginning of the book. These
readings are also shaped by the conviction that thePhilosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations are hardly intelligible apart
from an appreciation of the concerns that they inherit from
Wittgenstein’s early work, the
are hardly intelligible apart
from an appreciation of the concerns that they inherit from
Wittgenstein’s early work, theTractatus
Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus. The authors contend that we need to
consider the continuities between the early and the later works
if we are to disclose the true discontinuities between them.
. The authors contend that we need to
consider the continuities between the early and the later works
if we are to disclose the true discontinuities between them.
