Wittgenstein and Gadamer.

This is the first comparative study of the pioneering work on language of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The book focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject's Philosophical Investigations and...

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Main Author: Lawn, Chris
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004
Series:Continuum studies in German philosophy.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Language: Two Philosophical Traditions; 2 Gadamer and Wittgenstein: Contrasts and Commonalities; 3 Gadamer''s Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Ontology of Language; 4 Wittgenstein and the Logics of Language; 5 '' What has history to do with me?'': Language and / as Historicality; 6 A Competition of Interpretations: Wittgenstein and Gadamer Read Augustine; 7 Ordinary and Extraordinary Language: the Hermeneutics of the Poetic Word; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T.