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9780415111911

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415111911

  • ISBN10:

    0415111919

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-04-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Wittgenstein is the most influential twentieth-century philosopher in the English-speaking world. InThe Philosophical Investigations, his most important work, he introduces the famous "private language argument" which changed the whole philosophical view of language. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigationsintroduces and assesses Wittgenstein's life and its connection with his thought, the text ofThe Philosophical Investigations, and the importance of Wittgenstein's work to contemporary philosophy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
Style and methodp. 9
Wittgenstein's critique of Augustinep. 33
Rules and rule-followingp. 73
Privacy and private languagep. 113
The inner and the outerp. 143
Seeing and seeing aspectsp. 177
Bibliographyp. 205
Indexp. 211
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