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James M. Thompson: Wittgenstein on Phenomenology and Experience: An Investigation of Wittgenstein's 'Middle' Period (2008)
One of the most significant areas within Wittgenstein research involves the question of (dis)continuity. It has long been a point of bitter contention, whether or not a particular line of thought or even general idea runs through all of Wittgenstein’s works. However, the publication of the Nachlass materials within the last decade has opened up new avenues of investigation as well as allowed for a more comprehensive and critical treatment of this issue. This book approaches the (dis)continuity question by examining Wittgenstein’s concept of experience from the Tractatus through until the Philosophical Investigations. One of the fundamental claims of the book is that by tracing his conception of experience as it relates to language, one is able to account for the so-called “shifts” in his thought – the most extraordinary of which is Wittgenstein’s development of a phenomenology upon his return to Cambridge in 1929.
English. 150 pages. ISBN: 978-82-91071-24-4. Price: NOK 250 (+ porto).
For inquiries or placing orders please write to Eldbjorg Gunnarson <Eldbjorg.Gunnarson@aksis.uib.no> at the Wittgenstein Archives / AKSIS.
Content:
Chapter One: The Significance of the Question Concerning (Dis)continuity
I. Overview of the Question Concerning (Dis)continuity
II. The One and the Many: Wittgenstein and his Interpreters
Chapter Two: Laying the Groundwork for the Question of (Dis)continuity
I. Overview of the Tractatus
II. The Picture Theory of Language
III. The Demand for Determinate Sense
IV. Confronting the Limits of Language
V. The Ethical-Aesthetic Subject as Transcendental Limit
VI. Wittgenstein's Early Treatment of Experience
VII. Summary Remarks on Wittgenstein's Conception of Experience
Chapter Three: Die Kehre
I. The Decade In-between
II. Moving Beyond the Tractatus
III. The Origins of Wittgenstein's Phenomenology
IV. The Categorical Confusion of Physical Space and Visual Space
V. The Language of Immediate Experience as Phenomenology
Chapter Four: Essence, Autonomy, and Games
I. Discerning the Essence of Language
II. Phenomenology as Grammar
III. From Calculus to Language-game
Chapter Five: The Indeterminacy of Language
I. The Path to the Philosophical Investigations
II. Reconsidering the Question of (Dis)continuity
III. Concluding Remarks
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