How to Read Wittgenstein
by Ray Monk, Simon Critchley
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Author: Ray Monk, Simon CritchleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-26
ISBN: 0393328201
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Summary of How to Read Wittgenstein
Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading these classic authors, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.
Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Wittgenstein's determination to insist on the integrity and the autonomy of nonscientific forms of understanding.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, 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, of a poem.
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