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How To Read Wittgenstein Ray Monk

How To Read Wittgenstein By Ray Monk

How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk


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'Ray Monk here presents what is surely the best short introduction to the work of this wonderful thinker' John Banville, Irish Times

How To Read Wittgenstein Summary

How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk

Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that of his peers and makes the question of how to read him particularly pertinent. At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Ray Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of non-scientific forms of understanding. The kind of understanding we seek in philosophy, Wittgenstein tried to make clear, is similar to the kind we might seek of a person, a piece of music, or, indeed, a poem. Extracts are taken from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and from a range of writings, including Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology.

About Ray Monk

Ray Monk is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and of a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell.

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GOR001159921
9781862077249
186207724X
How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
20050207
128
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