Wittgenstein on Thought, Language and Philosophy: From Theory to TherapyArguing that philosophy can be characterized as a form of conceptual investigation, Christoffer Gefwert aims to demonstrte that a theoretical view does not correspond to Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy. For example, philosophy is not transcendental as he thought it was before 1929. Neither is philosophical language universal as Wittgenstein 1929-1936 thought it was. Proposing that a philosophical conceptual investigation is analogous to a psychotherapeutical session of Freud, with the common aim to dissolve the conceptual problems in language that haunts us in our everyday life, Gefwert's examination of the post-1937 writings of Wittgenstein concludes that "philosophical investigation" is a very different activity than that assumed by the Logical Postives and others adhering to a theoretical view. |
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METHODOLOGICAL ILLUSIONS | 62 |
THOUGHT AND PRIVACY | 101 |
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