Ethics As Grammar

by Kallenberg, Brad J.

• ISBN13: 9780268027605
• ISBN10: 0268027609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

Wittgenstein, one of the most influential, and yet widely misunderstood, philosophers of our age, confronted his readers with aporias - linguistic puzzles - as a means of countering modern philosophical confusions over the nature of language without replicating the same confusions in his own writings. In Ethics as Grammar, Brad Kallenberg uses the writings of theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas as a foil for demonstrating how Wittgenstein's method can become concrete within the Christian tradition. Kallenberg shows that the aesthetic, political, and grammatical strands epitomizing Hauerwas's thought are the result of his learning to do Christian ethics by thinking through Wittgenstein.

Author Biography

Brad J. Kallenberg is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Working on Oneself	p. 11
Ethics as Aesthetics	p. 49
This Complicated Form of Life
Ethics as Politics	p. 113
Back to the Rough Ground	p. 161
Ethics as Grammar	p. 215
Notes	p. 255
Bibliography: Wittgenstein and Hauerwas
General Index	p. 321
Index of Quotations	p. 325
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