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" How to read Wittgenstein / "
Ray Monk.
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BL
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874648
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Monk, Ray.
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| Title & Author
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How to read Wittgenstein /\ Ray Monk.
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| Edition Statement
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First American edition.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: W.W. Norton & Company,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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How to read
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viii, 114 pages ;; 20 cm.
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0393328201
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: 9780393328202
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index.
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| Contents
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Logic, science and business -- Clearing up philosophy in three words -- Picturing the world -- What is a proposition? -- What is philosophy? -- The disintegration of logical form -- The new philosophy : giving up the crystalline purity of logic -- Language games -- Can there be a private language? -- Reading Wittgenstein in the right spirit -- Understanding others, understanding ourselves : imponderable evidence.
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Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophies - 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 nonscientific 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, of a poem. -- from back cover.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig,1889-1951.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig,1889-1951
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy
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192
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B3376.W564M66 2005
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