Can I read Wittgenstein's private language : grammar, nonsense, and imagination in Philosophical investigations, sections 243-315 on EtoBox?

Wittgenstein's private language : grammar, nonsense, and imagination in Philosophical investigations, sections 243-315 by Stephen Mulhall; Oxford University Press is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wittgenstein's private language : grammar, nonsense, and imagination in Philosophical investigations, sections 243-315 about?

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed use of Stanley Cavell's interpretations of these remarks; and relates disputes about how to interpret this aspect of Wittgenstein's later philosophy to a recent, highly influential controversy about how to interpret Wittgenstein's early text, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by drawing and testing out a distinction between resolute and substantial understandings of the related notions of grammar, nonsense and the imagination. The book is concerned throughout to elucidate Wittgenstein's philosophical method, and to establish the importance of the form or style of his writing to the proper application of this method.

Author

Stephen Mulhall; Oxford University Press

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199556748

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Humanities