Language and Solitude : Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma

by Gellner, Ernest

• ISBN13: 9780511035623
• ISBN10: 0511035624
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Gellner??'s final book is a synoptic interpretation of the thought of Wittgenstein and Malinowski.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Foreword	p. xiii
The Habsburg Dilemma	p. 1
Swing Alone or Swing Together	p. 3
The Rivals	p. 7
Genesis of the Individualist Vision	p. 14
The Metaphysics of Romanticism	p. 17
Romanticism and the Basis of Nationalism	p. 21
Individualism and Holism in Society	p. 26
Crisis in Kakania	p. 30
Pariah Liberalism	p. 35
Recapitulation	p. 37
Wittgenstein	p. 41
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Empiricist	p. 43
The Poem to Solitude, Or: Confessions of a Transcendental Ego Who is Also a Viennese Jew	p. 46
Ego and Language	p. 59
The World as Solitary Vice	p. 62
The Mystical	p. 65
The Central Proposition of the Tractatus World Without Culture	p. 68
Wittgenstein Mark 2	p. 71
Tertium Non Datur	p. 74
Joint Escape	p. 79
Janik and Toulmin: a Critique	p. 85
The Case of the Disappearing Self	p. 96
Pariah Communalism	p. 100
Iron Cage Kafka-Style	p. 107
Malinowski	p. 111
The Birth of Modern Social Anthropology	p. 113
The Malinowskian Revolution	p. 120
How Did Malinowski Get There?	p. 123
Whither Anthropology? Or: Whither Bronislaw?	p. 127
The Difference Between Cracow and Vienna	p. 138
Malinowski's Achievement and Politics	p. 140
Malinowski's Theory of Language	p. 145
Malinowski's Later Mistake	p. 151
The (Un) Originality of Malinowski and Wittgenstein	p. 155
Influences	p. 157
The Impact and Diffusion of Wittgenstein's Ideas	p. 159
The First Wave of Wittgenstein's Influence	p. 164
The Belated Convergence of Philosophy and Anthropology	p. 174
Conclusions	p. 179
The Truth of the Matter	p. 181
Our Present Condition	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 192
Bibliographies of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and Nationalism	p. 195
Index	p. 205
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