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Elucidating the Tractatus

Author : Marie McGinn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191529591
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Elucidating the Tractatus written by Marie McGinn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn's principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative line, which rejects the idea, central to the metaphysical reading, that Wittgenstein sets out to ground the logic of our language in features of an independently constituted reality, but which allows that he aims to provide positive philosophical insights into how language functions. McGinn takes as a guiding principle the idea that we should see Wittgenstein's early work as an attempt to eschew philosophical theory and to allow language itself to reveal how it functions. By this account, the aim of the work is to elucidate what language itself makes clear, namely, what is essential to its capacity to express thoughts that are true or false. However, the early Wittgenstein undertakes this descriptive project in the grip of a set of preconceptions concerning the essence of language that determine both how he conceives the problem and the approach he takes to the task of clarification. Nevertheless, the Tractatus contains philosophical insights, achieved despite his early preconceptions, that form the foundation of his later philosophy. The anti-metaphysical interpretation that is presented includes a novel reading of the problematic opening sections of the Tractatus, in which the apparently metaphysical status of Wittgenstein's remarks is shown to be an illusion. The book includes a discussion of the philosophical background to the Tractatus, a comprehensive interpretation of Wittgenstein's early views of logic and language, and an interpretation of the remarks on solipsism. The final chapter is a discussion of the relation between the early and the later philosophy that articulates the fundamental shift in Wittgenstein's approach to the task of understanding how language functions and reveal the still more fundamental continuity in his conception of his philosophical task.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : Alfred Nordmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521850865
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Alfred Nordmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction, first published in 2005, considers the philosophical and literary aspects of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' and shows how they are related.

An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anscombe guides us through the Tractatus and, thereby, Wittgenstein's early philosophy as a whole. She shows in particular how his arguments developed out of the discussions of Russell and Frege. This reprint is of the fourth, corrected edition.

Wittgenstein's Mistress

Author : David Markson
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Mistress written by David Markson and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author :
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793632898
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential—and one of the most obscure—philosophical works of the twentieth century. Duncan Richter’s new translation of and commentary on the Tractatus help the reader understand the text and directs the reader to relevant secondary literature. To avoid imposing any particular interpretation on the text, this translation is as literal as possible while honoring Wittgenstein's wishes about how his words should be rendered in English. For similar reasons, Richter more often quotes than paraphrases the selected secondary sources, which represent a variety of opinions on what Wittgenstein meant. This book also includes an introduction by Richter and a bibliography. Like the Tractatus itself, this is not a textbook but a version of the text designed for those who want to read and understand it for themselves.

Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415254083
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Tractatus Logico-philosophicus written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the 20th century, this was the only philosophical work that Wittgenstein published during his lifetime.

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Author : Michael Rowland Morris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415357227
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus written by Michael Rowland Morris and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2008 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents an introduction to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Morris introduces & analyses the brief & sometimes cryptic text, including Wittgestein's life, the background to the Tractatus, & the importance of Wittgenstein's work in philosophy today.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : Peter Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199665788
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Peter Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new studies of Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' represent a significant step beyond recent polemical debate. They cover a wide range of themes, and show that close investigation into the composition of the work, and into the various influences on it, has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought.

Pulling Up the Ladder

Author : Richard R. Brockhaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pulling Up the Ladder written by Richard R. Brockhaus and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulling up the Ladder discusses how Wittgenstein's early philosophy became widely known largely through the efforts of Russell and other empirically-minded British philosophers, and to a lesser extent, the scientifically-oriented German-speaking philosophers of the Vienna Circle. However, Wittgenstein's primary philosophical concerns arose in a far different context, and failure to grasp this has led to many misunderstandings of the Tractatus. From Brockhaus' investigation of that context and its problems emerges this new interpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought, which also affords fresh insights into the later Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : Matthew B. Ostrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521006491
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Matthew B. Ostrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a strikingly innovative study of the Tractatus.

Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : Ian Proops
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135716382
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by Ian Proops and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic and language, as it is presented in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The study makes a case for the Tractatus as an insightful critique of the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege-the Founding Fathers of analytic philosophy.

Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus

Author : Signe Gjessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781919609287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus written by Signe Gjessing and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signe Gjessing's highly original reconfiguration of Wittgenstein's Tractatus unfolds at once logically and lyrically on the trembling cusp where philosophy and poetry intersect. Her witty, haunting propositions shimmer between the profound and the puzzling, and beautifully enact Wallace Stevens's assertion that 'Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation' - Mark Ford Fuelled both by logic and intuition, luxuriance and clarity, ecstasy and precision, this long poem unfurls, fractal-like, to amass moments of confounding, generative insight and beauty - Ralf Webb Signe Gjessing is a wild voice in new Danish poetry, always closely connected to the symbolic tradition and cosmos - Naja Marie Aidt

Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author : José L. Zalabardo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198743947
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus written by José L. Zalabardo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jos L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's picture theory of propositional representation in Russell's theories of judgment, arguing that the picture theory is Wittgenstein's solution to some of the problems that he found in Russell's position. Zalabardo defends the view that, for Wittgenstein, facts in general, and the facts that play the role of propositions in particular, are not composite items, arising from the combination of their constituents. They are ultimate, irreducible units, and what we think of as their constituents are features that facts have in common with one another. These common features have built into them their possibilities of combination with other features into possible situations. This is the source of the Tractarian account of non-actual possibilities. It is also the source of the idea that it is not possible to produce propositions answering to certain descriptions, including those that would give rise to Russell's paradox. Zalabardo then considers Wittgenstein's view that every proposition is a truth function of elementary propositions. He argues that this view is motivated by Wittgenstein's epistemology of logic, according to which we should be able to see logical relations by inspecting the structures of propositions. Finally, Zalabardo considers the problems that we face if we try to extend the application of the picture theory from elementary propositions to truth functions of these.

The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135893713
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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A Companion to Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'

Author : Max Black
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521042642
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' written by Max Black and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1964-01-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'

Author : Roger M. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441188916
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' written by Roger M. White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein's Tractatus - the only book he actually published within his lifetime - was an immensely important work which changed the direction of philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. Highlighting the importance of the nature of language in philosophy and the problematic nature of metaphysics, it strongly influenced the work of Russell, the Vienna Circle and A. J. Ayer. An understanding of the ideas in the Tractatus is essential to fully grasp Wittgenstein's remarkable thought. In Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus': A Reader's Guide, Roger White provides a thorough account of the philosophical and historical context of Wittgenstein's work. The book provides a detailed outline of the themes and structure of the text, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of this remarkable text. White goes on to explore the reception and influence of the work and offers a detailed guide to further reading. This is the ideal companion to study of this hugely important philosophical work.

The Enchantment of Words

Author : Denis McManus
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019161503X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Enchantment of Words written by Denis McManus and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic. McManus argues that Wittgenstein's aim in this deeply puzzling work is to show that the 'intelligibility of thought' and the 'meaningfulness of language', which logical truths would delimit and metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and language would explain, are issues constituted by confusions. What is exposed is a mirage of a kind of self-consciousness, a misperception of the ways in which we happen to think, talk and act as reasons why we ought to think, talk and act as we do. The root of that misperception is our confusedly endowing words with a life of their own: we 'enchant', and are 'enchanted by', words, colluding in a confusion that transposes on to them, and the world which we then see them as 'fitting', responsibilities that are actually ours to bear. Such words promise to spare us the trouble, not only of thinking, but of living. In presenting this view, McManus offers readings of all of the major themes of the Tractatus, including its discussion of logical truth, objects, names, inference, subjectivity, solipsism and the ineffable; McManus offers novel explanations of what is at stake in Wittgenstein's comparison of propositions with pictures, of why Wittgenstein declared the point of the Tractatus to be ethical, of how a bookwhich infamously declares itself to be nonsensical can both clarify our thoughts and require of us that we exercise our capacity to reason in reading it, and of how Wittgenstein later came to re-evaluate the achievement of the Tractatus.