Wittgenstein and the possibility of discourse
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Wittgenstein and the possibility of discourse
Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Four years after the publication of Wittgenstein's Investigations, Rush Rhees began writing critical reflections on the masterpiece he had helped to edit. In this edited collection of his previously unpublished writings, Rhees argues, contra Wittgenstein, that although language lacks the unity of a calculus it is not simply a family of language games. The unity of language is found in its dialogical character. It is in this context that we say something, and grow in understanding: notions not captured in Wittgenstein's emphasis on language games, following rules, and using language. Rhees develops Wittgenstein's notion that to imagine a language is to image a form of life, without suggesting that we are all engaged in an all-inclusive conversation. The result is not only a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship, but an original discussion of central philosophical questions concerning the possibility of discourse.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Philosophy and Language: 1. Plato, language and the growth of understanding
- 2. 'What is language?'
- 3. The reality of language
- Part II. Games and Language: 4. Discussion and discourse
- 5. Games, calculations, discussions and conversations
- Part III. Beyond Wittgenstein's Builders: 6. Signals and saying something
- 7. Language: a family of games?
- 8. Understanding what is said
- 9. Wittgenstein's builders: recapitulation
- Part IV. Belonging to Language: 10. Conversation and institutions
- 11. Language and generality
- 12. Language, speaking and common intelligibility
- 13. Philosophy, life and language.
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