Overinterpreting Wittgenstein

by Biletzki, Anat

• ISBN13: 9781402013270
• ISBN10: 1402013272
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy. It will intrigue readers interested in issues of interpretation and cultural studies. This book tells the story - as yet untold - of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the (socio-cultural rather than psychological) motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. As a cultural history of ideas, it traces the parallelism between Wittgenstein interpretation and the move from metaphysics, to language, to postmodernism effected in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
PART I: ON INTERPRETATION	11	(18)
Interpretation and Overinterpretation	13	(16)
PART II: THE STANDARD INTERPRETATIONS	29	(78)
The First Station: Logico-Linguistic (Anti-)Metaphysics	35	(12)
The Second Station: Sophisticated Metaphysics (and Meaning as Use)	47	(12)
The Third Station: Reasonable Meta-Readings	59	(22)
The Fourth Station: Taking Nonsense Seriously	81	(14)
The Fifth Station: Over the Deep End, Or the Ethical Reading	95	(12)
PART III: OFF THE MAINLINE: NON-STANDARD ISSUES	107	(56)
Mathematics	109	(20)
Religion	129	(16)
Social Science	145	(18)
PART IV: CULTURE AND COMMUNITY OF INTERPRETATION	163	(36)
Going Continental	165	(14)
Going Diverse	179	(8)
Idolatry and Fashion	187	(12)
Notes	199	(20)
References	219	(14)
Index of Names	233