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Enchantment of Words : Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Denis McManus (2010, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199585520
ISBN-139780199585526
eBay Product ID (ePID)80054024
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Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameEnchantment of Words : Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLanguage, Individual Philosophers, General, Logic
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics, Philosophy
AuthorDenis Mcmanus
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight15.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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ReviewsReview from previous edition: "An interesting and deeply thoughtful book that is a significant contribution to the seemingly endless task of interpreting Wittgenstein's early work." --Marie McGinn, IMind
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal192
Table Of Content1. Introduction2. Some Historical Preliminaries3. Objects, Names, Facts, and Propositions4. The Method of the Tractatus5. The Picture Analogy6. Logical and Ontological Types7. The Supposed 'Con-formity' of Language and World8. Subjectivity9. Objects Revisited10. Method Revisited11. The General Form of the Proposition12. Problem Cases for the General Form13. Ethics and 'the Inexpressible'14. Ethics and 'the Ladder'15. ConclusionAppendix A: The Later WittgensteinAppendix B: List of Abbreviations Used for Particular 'Theses' of the Tractatus
SynopsisDenis McManus presents a study of Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in the Tractatus. This study of the work offers novel readings of all its major themes and sheds light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic., Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic. McManus argues that Wittgenstein's aim in this deeply puzzling work is to show that the 'intelligibility of thought' and the 'meaningfulness of language', which logical truths would delimit and metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and language would explain, are issues constituted by confusions. What is exposed is a mirage of a kind of self-consciousness, a misperception of the ways in which we happen to think, talk and act as reasons why we ought to think, talk and act as we do. The root of that misperception is our confusedly endowing words with a life of their own: we 'enchant', and are 'enchanted by', words, colluding in a confusion that transposes on to them, and the world which we then see them as 'fitting', responsibilities that are actually ours to bear. Such words promise to spare us the trouble, not only of thinking, but of living. In presenting this view, McManus offers readings of all of the major themes of the Tractatus, including its discussion of logical truth, objects, names, inference, subjectivity, solipsism and the ineffable; McManus offers novel explanations of what is at stake in Wittgenstein's comparison of propositions with pictures, of why Wittgenstein declared the point of the Tractatus to be ethical, of how a bookwhich infamously declares itself to be nonsensical can both clarify our thoughts and require of us that we exercise our capacity to reason in reading it, and of how Wittgenstein later came to re-evaluate the achievement of the Tractatus., Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic. McManus argues that Wittgenstein's aim in this deeply puzzling work is to show that the 'intelligibility of thought' and the 'meaningfulness of language', which logical truths would delimit and metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and language would explain, are issues constituted by confusions. What is exposed is a mirage of a kind of self-consciousness, a misperception of the ways in which we happen to think, talk and act as reasons why we ought to think, talk and act as we do. The root of that misperception is our confusedly endowing words with a life of their own: we 'enchant', and are 'enchanted by', words, colluding in a confusion that transposes on to them, and the world which we then see them as 'fitting', responsibilities that are actually ours to bear. Such words promise to spare us the trouble, not only of thinking, but of living. In presenting this view, McManus offers readings of all of the major themes of the Tractatus , including its discussion of logical truth, objects, names, inference, subjectivity, solipsism and the ineffable; McManus offers novel explanations of what is at stake in Wittgenstein's comparison of propositions with pictures, of why Wittgenstein declared the point of the Tractatus to be ethical, of how a bookwhich infamously declares itself to be nonsensical can both clarify our thoughts and require of us that we exercise our capacity to reason in reading it, and of how Wittgenstein later came to re-evaluate the achievement of the Tractatus .
LC Classification NumberB3376.W563T732
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