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Free Download Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism by Richard Eldridge
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0226203123 | 307 Pages | PDF | 21.7 MB
In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century.

Free Download Françoise Davoine, "Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1032568674 | 2023 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1006 KB + 3 MB

Free Download Wittgenstein: Mind and Language By Georg Henrik Von Wright (auth.), Rosaria Egidi (eds.)
1995 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 9048144752 | PDF | 19 MB
Wittgenstein: Mind and Language brings together a collection of previously unpublished essays which offer a systematic account of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mind and contribute in an absolutely new and original way to illuminating his later conception of human perceptive, emotional and cognitive language from both a theoretical and an historical point of view. The focus is on the fundamental categories of philosophical grammar, on the analysis of intentionality, of belief and Moore’s paradox, on certainty and doubt, on will, memory, sensations and emotions, as well as on the theory of aspects and private language and the relationship with relativism and psychologism. In the recent literature there are undoubtedly numerous qualified publications dedicated to the themes of philosophical psychology as they emerge from Wittgenstein’s Nachlaß and from his writings on this subject published in the last decade. This book, however, provides the essential points of reference of Wittgenstein’s late treatment of psychological concepts in the context of the general features of his early philosophy of science and language and in the framework of the trends of his time. The book is of special interest to scholars and students, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, logicians, historians of contemporary philosophy and science.

Free Download Taking Wittgenstein at His Word: A Textual Study (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) by Robert J. Fogelin
English | November 22, 2009 | ISBN: 069114253X, 0691202389 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 1.9 MB
Taking Wittgenstein at His Word is an experiment in reading organized around a central question: What kind of interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy emerges if we adhere strictly to his claims that he is not in the business of presenting and defending philosophical theses and that his only aim is to expose persistent conceptual misunderstandings that lead to deep philosophical perplexities? Robert Fogelin draws out the therapeutic aspects of Wittgenstein’s later work by closely examining his account of rule-following and how he applies the idea in the philosophy of mathematics.

Free Download (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein By Anat Biletzki (auth.)
2003 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 1402013272 | PDF | 5 MB
(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.

Free Download Mischa Twitchin, "Wittgenstein and Performance "
English | ISBN: 1538175096 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Embodying Wittgenstein’s own aphorism of "you’d be surprised," this collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgenstein’s writings across a diverse field of performance practices, including poetics and choreography, theatre, and psychotherapy, as well as reflections on political thought and ChatGPT.

Free Download Kim Paffenroth, "Augustine and Wittgenstein "
English | ISBN: 1498585264 | 2018 | 216 pages | EPUB | 335 KB
This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like language-learning, will, memory, and time as prompts for his own philosophical explorations, and he found great inspiration in Augustine’s highly personalized and interlocutory style of writing philosophy. Each in his own way, in an effort to understand human experience more fully, adopts a mode of philosophizing that involves questioning, recognizing confusions, and confronting doubts. Beyond its bearing on such topics as language, meaning, knowledge, and will, their analysis extends to the nature of religious belief and its fundamental place in human experience. The essays collected here consider a broad range of themes, from issues regarding teaching, linguistic meaning, and self-understanding to miracles, ritual, and religion.

Free Download Duncan Richter, "Wittgenstein’s Tractatus"
English | ISBN: 179363288X | 2021 | 164 pages | EPUB, PDF | 519 KB + 3 MB
First published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential-and one of the most obscure-philosophical works of the twentieth century. Duncan Richter’s new translation of and commentary on the Tractatus help the reader understand the text and directs the reader to relevant secondary literature. To avoid imposing any particular interpretation on the text, this translation is as literal as possible while honoring Wittgenstein’s wishes about how his words should be rendered in English. For similar reasons, Richter more often quotes than paraphrases the selected secondary sources, which represent a variety of opinions on what Wittgenstein meant. This book also includes an introduction by Richter and a bibliography. Like the Tractatus itself, this is not a textbook but a version of the text designed for those who want to read and understand it for themselves.

Free Download Shunichi Takagi, "Wittgenstein and Nietzsche "
English | ISBN: 1032100494 | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives. While some chapters focus on the philological and biographical connections of Wittgenstein’s reading of Nietzsche, others reflect on the ideas that are implicitly shared by the two thinkers.

Free Download Martin Gustafsson, "Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein "
English | ISBN: 1032139978 | 2023 | 314 pages | EPUB, PDF | 772 KB + 21 MB
This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.