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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths
Jaakko Hintikka
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Description for Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths
Paperback. Series: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 652.
IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters? Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he ... Read more
IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters? Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
Series
Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792342809
SKU
V9780792342809
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About Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First ... Read more
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