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Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy

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  1. Allan Janik

    1. Brenner Archive, Innsbruck University, Austria

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 114)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Style and Idea in the Later Heidegger: Rhetoric, Politics and Philosophy

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 1-39

  3. Nyíri on the Conservatism of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 40-58

  4. Wittgenstein, Marx and Sociology

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 59-79

  5. On Edification and Cultural Conversation: A Critique of Rorty

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 80-92

  6. Towards a Wittgensteinian Metaphysics of the Political

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 93-108

  7. Culture, Controversy and the Human Studies

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 109-115

  8. The Politics of Conciliation

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 116-132

  9. Discussing Technology — Breaking the Ground

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 133-145

  10. Socialization is Creative Because Creativity is Social

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 146-158

  11. Myth and Certainty

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 159-171

  12. Self-Deception, Naturalism and Certainty: Prolegomena to a Critical Hermeneutics

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 172-189

  13. Psychoanalysis: Science, Literature or Art?

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 190-196

  14. Between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment: The Self-Critical Rationalism of G. C. Lichtenberg

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 197-210

  15. Tacit Knowledge, Working Life and Scientific Method

    • Allan Janik
    Pages 211-224

  16. Paradigms, Politics and Persuasion: Sociological Aspects of Musical Controversy

    • Martin Brody, Allan Janik
    Pages 225-263

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 264-278
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Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, write in such a curious fashion that they confused a whole generation of disciples and created a cottage industry for a second generation in the interpretation of their works? Do those curious writing strategies have a philosophical signif­ icance? How does philosophical style reflect attitudes to society and politics or bear significance for the social sciences? Is politics one type of human activity among many other independent ones as the classical modem political theorists from Hobbes and Machiavelli onwards have thought, or is it part and parcel of all of the activities into which an animal that speaks enters? How could the latter be elucidated? If politics arises from legitimate disputes about meanings, what does this imply for current cultural debates? for the so-called social sciences? above all, for that cultural conversation which some consider to be the destiny of philosophy in the wake of the demise of foundationalism? These are a few of the most important questions which led me to the critical confrontation and reflections in the essays collected below.

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  • Brenner Archive, Innsbruck University, Austria

    Allan Janik

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