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Wittgenstein’s Language

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  • © 1973

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  1. Timothy Binkley

    1. USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Philosophy and Language

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      Pages 3-16

  3. Travelling across the Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Reminders

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 19-19

    3. The Landscape

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 20-31

    4. The Sketch

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 32-46

    5. The Remark

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 47-65

    6. ‘You’ and ‘I’

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 66-77

    7. Grammar

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 78-93

    8. Natural History

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 94-111

    9. Therapy

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 112-130

  4. Reflecting on the Album

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Logic and Language

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 133-164

    3. Understanding Philosophical Investigations

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 165-192

    4. The African Doctor

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      Pages 193-202

  5. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Reflections on the Philosophy of Language

      • Timothy Binkley
      Pages 205-219

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 220-227
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About this book

One of the first things to strike the reader of Wittgenstein's writings is the unique power of his style. One immediately notices the intriguing and arrangement of the paragraphs in Philosophical Investi­ composition gations, or the stark assertiveness of the sentences in the Tractatus Logico­ Philosophicus. A sense of the singular style being employed is unavoidable, even before the reader understands anything of what is happening philos­ ophically. Perhaps precisely for this reason it is too often assumed that coming to understand either work has little or nothing to do with re­ sponding to its form. The unusual style is a mere curiousity decorating the vehicle of Wittgenstein's ideas. Form is assigned a purely incidental import, there is a coincidence of this or that rhetorical flair with the yet to be determined content of the thoughts. The remarkableness of the style is perhaps registered in a tidy obiter dictum standing beside the more arduous task of discovering the substance of the ideas being presented. our interest, or at Wittgenstein's peculiar way of writing ably captures least our attention, but it bears only minor philosophical import. Though not unprecedented as a form of philosophical composition, it does not conform to the currently acceptable conventions; hence Wittgenstein's style is often thought to stand in the way of understanding his meaning. Such assumptions can be harmless for certain types of writing; however it does not appear as though Wittgenstein's is one of these.

Authors and Affiliations

  • USA

    Timothy Binkley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wittgenstein’s Language

  • Authors: Timothy Binkley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2450-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1973

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1541-1Published: 31 July 1973

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2450-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 228

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Modern Philosophy

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