| Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch Contributor(s): Gaita, Raimond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415041503 ISBN-13: 9780415041508 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: Written by eminent philosophers from Britain, Europe, America, and Australia, the essays of this collection are a tribute to Peter Winch, whose work is marked by his deep appreciation of the most fundamental aspect of Wittgenstein's legacy: that we cannot detach our concepts from their roots in human life. The voices in this volume unite in different tones of sympathy and criticism by discussing the theme of human conditioning: the human conditioning of what we can find intelligible, possible and impossible, and the suspicion of an illusory transcendence. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 100 |
| LCCN: 89010362 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.18 lbs) 302 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The voices in this volume, those of philosophers from Britain, Europe, America and Australia, speak in different tones of sumpathy and criticism of Winch and his conception of human conditioning. |