Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic: Investigations After Wittgenstein

ISBN-13: 9783110516289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 342 str.

Martin, Christian

Opis

This volume deals with the relation between the capacity to speak and the human form of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein's approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance both against a reductive naturalist as well as a sociological understanding of "Lebensform" in Wittgenstein. It seeks to promote a broadly logical understanding of this notion instead. The volume pinpoints the precise, logical function of "Lebensform" in Wittgenstein and relates it to debates in post-Wittgensteinian philosophy. Part one focuses on the way that leads from the notion of Form in Wittgenstein's Tractatus to the notion of Lebensform in his later work. Contributions to part two examine both the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as its difference from related concepts. Part three puts the notion of form(s) of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy.

This volume deals with Wittgenstein's approach to the relation between the capacity to speak and the human form of life. It takes a stance against a naturalistic as well as a sociological views of this notion and seeks to promote a broadly logical understanding instead. Contributions focus on the genesis of "Lebensform" in Wittgenstein, its function within his mature philosophy and its relation to penomenology and ordinary language ühilosophy.

Recenzje

This book's title (unlike some titles) accurately represents the excellent content of this collection of eleven papers and the editor's introduction. My overall impression is that most of the chapters are written with a similar level of expertise and precision on one hand, and with openness and creativity on the other. ... To conclude, anyone interested in interpretations of Wittgenstein's major philosophical concepts -- some of which (e.g., language-games and Form(s) of Life) thinkers were so taken with internationally they became standard philosophical and non-philosophical terms -- should recognize this collection as a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on the interpretation of one of Wittgenstein's major philosophical concepts. ... Last but not least, this collection, as opposed to writings that promote other accounts of FOLs, rests on the new critical apparatus that researches not only Wittgenstein's published works, but also online available manuscripts and typescripts that are now being published more and more.

(Kristijan Krkac in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (6/3/2019, https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/language-form-s-of-life-and-logic-investigations-after-wittgenstein/, accessed 6/6/2019)

O autorze

Christian Georg Martin, LMU Munich.