(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy. It will intrigue readers interested in issues of interpretation and cultural studies. This book tells the story - as yet untold - of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the (socio-cultural rather than psychological) motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. As a cultural history of ideas, it traces the parallelism between Wittgenstein interpretation and the move from metaphysics, to language, to postmodernism effected in the twentieth century. |
Contents
Chapter1 Interpretation and Overinterpretation | |
THE EARLY AND THE LATER | |
LogicoLinguistic Anti | |
Sophisticated Metaphysics And | |
ISMS | |
Taking Nonsense Seriously | |
DIALECTICAL READING | |
Chapter7 Mathematics | |
PHILOSOPHY OFAND MATHEMATICS | |
RELIGION AS LANGUAGEGAME AND FORM OF LIFE | |
THE IDEA OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE | |
Going Continental | |
BRIDGING THE WITTGENSTEINS | |
Idolatry and Fashion | |
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