Tag: Wittgenstein

Free Download Jack Manzi, "Between Wittgenstein and Weil "
English | ISBN: 1032291095 | 2023 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 5 MB
This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa.

Free Download Ray: Monk, "Wittgenstein: the Duty of Genius"
English | 1991 | pages: 654 | ISBN: 0099883708, 0029216702 | EPUB | 3,0 mb
A portrait of one of the twentieth-century’s most influential philosophers draws on previously unpublished letters and writings to describe Wittgenstein’s youth, education, private life, and major works

Free Download Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009475630 | 80 Pages | PDF (True) | 0.7 MB
This Element concerns Wittgenstein’s evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Despite the marked – and sometimes radical – changes Wittgenstein’s thinking undergoes from the early to the middle to the later period, there is an underlying continuity in terms of his unwillingness at any point to endorse either position in a straightforward manner. Instead, Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. The author traces these "neither-nor" and "both-and" strands of Wittgenstein’s attitude toward realism and idealism to his – again, evolving – insistence on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena. That thought and language are about the world and happen amidst the world they are about undermines the attempt to formulate any kind of general thesis concerning their interrelation.

Free Download Oskari Kuusela, Mihai Ometita, Timur Uçan, "Wittgenstein and Phenomenology"
English | 2018 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0367590182, 1138648655 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its different phases, including his own so-called phenomenological phase, relates to the variety of phenomenological approaches developed in continental Europe. In so doing, the volume seeks to throw light on both sides of the comparison, and to clarify more broadly the relations between analytic and phenomenological philosophy. However, rather than treating the interpretation of either phenomenological philosophy or Wittgenstein as an already settled issue, several chapters in the volume examine and question received views regarding them, and develop alternatives to such views. Wittgenstein and Phenomenology will be of interest to scholars working in philosophical methodology and metaphilosophy, the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics.

Free Download Alexander Waugh, "The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War"
English | 2009 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0385520603, 0307278727 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.