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Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Peter Sullivan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Peter Sullivan

Current price: $73.50
Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Peter Sullivan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Peter Sullivan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Peter Sullivan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Peter Sullivan

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This volume of newly written chapters on the history and interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represents a significant step beyond the polemical debate between broad interpretive approaches that has recently characterized the field. Some of the contributors might count their approach as'new' or 'resolute', while others are more 'traditional', but all are here concerned primarily with understanding in detail the structure of argument that Wittgenstein presents within the Tractatus, rather than with its final self-renunciation, or with the character of the understanding thatrenunciation might leave behind. The volume makes a strong case that close investigation, both biographical and textual, into the composition of the Tractatus, and into the various influences on it, still has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought. Amongst these influences Kant andKierkegaard are considered alongside Wittgenstein's immediate predecessors in the analytic tradition. The themes explored range across the breadth of Wittgenstein's book, and include his accounts of ethics and aesthetics, as well as issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and aspects ofthe logical framework of his account of representation. The contrast of saying and showing, and Wittgenstein's attitude to the inexpressible, is of central importance to many of the contributions. By approaching this concern through the various first-level issues that give rise to it, rather than from entrenched schematic positions, the contributorsdemonstrate the possibility of a more inclusive, constructive and fruitful mode of engagement with Wittgenstein's text and with each other. | Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Peter Sullivan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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