Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations
Wittgenstein is the most influential twentieth century philosopher in the English-speaking world. In the Philosophical Investigations, his most important work, he introduces the famous 'private language argument' which changed the whole philosophical view of language. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations introduces and assesses:\ * Wittgenstein's life, and its connection with his thought\ * the text of the Philosophical Investigations\ * the importance of Wittgenstein's work to...
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Wittgenstein is the most influential twentieth-century philosopher in the English-speaking world. In The Philosophical Investigations, his most important work, he introduces the famous "private language argument" which changed the whole philosophical view of language. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations introduces and assesses Wittgenstein's life and its connection with his thought, the text of The Philosophical Investigations, and the importance of Wittgenstein's work to contemporary philosophy.
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction11Style and method92Wittgenstein's critique of Augustine333Rules and rule-following734Privacy and private language1135The inner and the outer1436Seeing and seeing aspects177Bibliography205Index211
