{"product_id":"wittgenstein-isbn-9781405118484","title":"Wittgenstein","description":"\u003cb\u003ewittgenstein\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein’s work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account of his thought.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoachim Schulte, University of Zurich \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Concise, clear, and accessible, this sophisticated introduction covers an unusually wide range of central topics, including Wittgenstein’s historical and intellectual context, his philosophical development, and the ethical and political implications of his work.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Stern, University of Iowa \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For his radical questioning, original thinking, and determination to reshape the philosophical landscape, Ludwig Wittgenstein is widely hailed as a giant in twentieth-century philosophy. Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of the Austrian-born philosopher’s thought from his early work \u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e to the posthumous publication of \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, notes written just prior to his death. Renowned Wittgenstein scholar Hans Sluga first recounts events in Wittgenstein’s life in order to illuminate the historical, political, and personal conditions from which his philosophical work emerged. After identifying some of the philosopher’s key concepts and ideas in subsequent chapters, Sluga then reveals how the cultural and political changes that Wittgenstein and his contemporaries lived through mirror many of the dramatic events now happening in the twenty-first century. Sluga’s original analysis goes on to illustrate vividly how Wittgenstein’s thought may help us to face the peculiar problems of our own contemporary social and political existence. Illuminating and thought provoking, \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein\u003c\/i\u003e offers ground-breaking new insights into the mind of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The situated thinker 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The world and its structure 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The limits of language 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The prodigious diversity of language games 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Families and resemblances 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Our unsurveyable grammar 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Visible rails invisibly laid to infinity 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 What is the use of studying philosophy? 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 151\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Sluga’s \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein\u003c\/i\u003e would be an ideal textbook in a course on Wittgenstein and political philosophy and an excellent introduction for those interested in exploring that relation.”  (\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, 1 December 2012)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Sluga’s encyclopedic knowledge of Wittgenstein, and of other philosophers such as Frege and Heidegger, attests that he is eminently well qualified to write this book.  Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower-and upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.”  (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e 1 August 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHans Sluga \u003c\/b\u003e is the William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGottlob Frege\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) and \u003ci\u003eHeidegger’s Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and editor (with David Stern) of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein’s work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account of his thought.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoachim Schulte, University of Zurich \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e “Concise, clear, and accessible, this sophisticated introduction covers an unusually wide range of central topics, including Wittgenstein’s historical and intellectual context, his philosophical development, and the ethical and political implications of his work.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Stern, University of Iowa \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For his radical questioning, original thinking, and determination to reshape the philosophical landscape, Ludwig Wittgenstein is widely hailed as a giant in twentieth-century philosophy. Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of the Austrian-born philosopher’s thought from his early work \u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e to the posthumous publication of \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, notes written just prior to his death. Renowned Wittgenstein scholar Hans Sluga first recounts events in Wittgenstein’s life in order to illuminate the historical, political, and personal conditions from which his philosophical work emerged. After identifying some of the philosopher’s key concepts and ideas in subsequent chapters, Sluga then reveals how the cultural and political changes that Wittgenstein and his contemporaries lived through mirror many of the dramatic events now happening in the twenty-first century. Sluga’s original analysis goes on to illustrate vividly how Wittgenstein’s thought may help us to face the peculiar problems of our own contemporary social and political existence. Illuminating and thought provoking, \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein\u003c\/i\u003e offers ground-breaking new insights into the mind of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990500393189,"sku":"NP9781405118484","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405118484.jpg?v=1761788077","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/wittgenstein-isbn-9781405118484","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}