Pulling Up the Ladder the Metaphysical Roots of Wittgensteins - Richard R. Brockhaus
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"Pulling up the Ladder" discusses how Wittgenstein's early philosophy became widely known largely through the efforts of Russell and other empirically-minded British philosophers, and to a lesser extent, the scientifically-oriented German-speaking philosophers of the Vienna Circle. However, Wittgenstein's primary philosophical concerns arose in a far different context, and failure to grasp this has led to many misunderstandings of the "Tractatus". From Brockhaus' investigation of that context and its problems emerges this new interpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought, which also affords fresh insights into the later Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's first philosophy was a Schopenhauerian neo-Kantianism, and although he soon rejected much of the substance of Schopenhauer's work, his problems remained closely connected with Schopenhauer's view of the world and man's relation to it. Wittgenstein's early philosophy is a departure from Schopenhauer - a rigorously purified form, so to speak, of Schopenhauer's "Worl...
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1990Uitgever: Open Court Publishing Company356 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0812691261ISBN-13: 9780812691269Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Open Court: La Salle (IL), 1991. Paperback, 340 pp., 15x23x2,5 cm, some pencil underlining p 1-20, in very good condition. [Categorie: Filosofie] [Auteur: Brockhaus, Richard R.] [Pagina's: 340] [Jaar: 1991] [Titel: Pulling Up the Ladder: The metaphysical roots of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.]
