{"product_id":"wittgensteins-tractatus-history-and-interpretation-9780199665785","title":"Wittgenstein's Tractatus: History and Interpretation","description":"This volume of newly written chapters on the history and interpretation of Wittgenstein's \u003cem\u003eTractatus\u003c\/em\u003e represents a significant step beyond the polemical debate between broad interpretive approaches that has recently characterized the field. Some of the contributors might count their approach as \"new\" or \"resolute,\" while others are more 'traditional', but all are here concerned primarily with understanding in detail the structure of argument that Wittgenstein presents within the \u003cem\u003eTractatus\u003c\/em\u003e, rather than with its final self-renunciation, or with the character of the understanding that renunciation might leave behind. The volume makes a strong case that close investigation, both biographical and textual, into the composition of the \u003cem\u003eTractatus\u003c\/em\u003e, and into the various influences on it, still has much to yield in revealing the complexity and fertility of Wittgenstein's early thought. Amongst these influences Kant and Kierkegaard are considered alongside Wittgenstein's immediate predecessors\u003cbr\u003ein the analytic tradition. The themes explored range across the breadth of Wittgenstein's book, and include his accounts of ethics and aesthetics, as well as issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and aspects of the logical framework of his account of representation. The contrast of saying and showing, and Wittgenstein's attitude to the inexpressible, is of central importance to many of the contributions. By approaching this concern through the various first-level issues that give rise to it, rather than from entrenched schematic positions, the contributors demonstrate the possibility of a more inclusive, constructive and fruitful mode of engagement with Wittgenstein's text and with each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.39w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199665785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Sullivan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor at the University of Stirling where he has taught since 1993. The primary focus of his published work has been on the founding figures of analytic philosophy: Frege, Russell, the early Wittgenstein, and Ramsey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Potter\u003c\/strong\u003e, University Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge . He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSets\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1990), \u003cem\u003eReason's Nearest Kin\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2000), \u003cem\u003eSet Theory and its Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2004), and \u003cem\u003eMathematical Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e (edited with Mary Leng and Alexander Paseau, OUP, 2007). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40745236332659,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":156.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c14f0244-b25a-4899-93f1-445c4b2ae2cb.jpg?v=1677942198","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/wittgensteins-tractatus-history-and-interpretation-9780199665785","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}