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How to Read Wittgenstein
Contributor(s): Monk, Ray (Author), Critchley, Simon (Editor)
ISBN: 0393328201     ISBN-13: 9780393328202
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2005
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Annotation: This series--a personal master class in reading--presents the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. The volumes present a context and explanation that will facilitate understanding of the text.
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 192
LCCN: 2005019289
Series: How to Read
Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.06" W x 7.68" (0.31 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Wittgenstein's determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of nonscientific forms of understanding.

Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers -- the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning -- he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that of his peers and makes the question of how to read him particularly pertinent.

At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of non-scientific forms of understanding. The kind of understanding we seek in philosophy, Wittgenstein tried to make clear, is similar to the kind we might seek of a person, a piece of music, or, indeed, of a poem.

Contributor Bio(s): Critchley, Simon: - Simon Critchley is a best-selling author and the Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little...Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, Bowie, Memory Theatre and Suicide.Monk, Ray: - Ray Monk is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and of a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell.