Wittgenstein's Form of Life

Professor David Kishik (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

158 Seiten

2012 | NIPPOD
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-7199-3 (ISBN)

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Wittgenstein's Form of Life reveals the intricate relationship between language and life throughout Ludwig Wittgenstein's work. Drawing on the entire corpus of his writings, David Kishik offers a synoptic view of Wittgenstein's evolving thought by considering the notion of form of life as its vanishing center. The book takes its cue from the idea that 'to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life', in order to present the first holistic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy in the spirit of a new wave of interpretations, pioneered by Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond and James Conant. It is also an enticing contribution to the rising discourse revolving around the subject of life, led by the recent work of Giorgio Agamben. Standing on the threshold between the Analytic and the Continental philosophical traditions, Kishik shows how Wittgenstein's philosophy of language points toward a new philosophy of life, thereby making a unique contribution to our ethical and political thought.

David Kishik is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, USA.

Introduction: World; 1: Form; 2: Picture; 3: Meaning; 4: Philosophy; 5: Grammar; 6: Certainty; Epilogue: Threshold.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2012
Reihe/Serie	Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4411-7199-1 / 1441171991
ISBN-13	978-1-4411-7199-3 / 9781441171993
Zustand	Neuware