The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings / Edition 1

by James R. Atkinson

Overview

The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics such as, God, the meaning of life, reality, the eternal and the solipsistic self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415963442
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/06/2009
Series:	Studies in Philosophy
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James R. Atkinson

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Self-subsistence and Method

Chapter 2: What cannot be put into Words, Method and Mysticism

Chapter 3: Language, Method and Mysticism

Chapter 4: Showing and Wittgenstein’s Two Objections to Russell’s

Theory of Types

Chapter 5: Two Senses of Showing

Chapter 6: The Mystical and Showing

Chapter 7: Time and The Mystical

Chapter 8: Mysticism and the Problems of Philosophy

Chapter 9: Nonsense and Two Interpretations of the Tractatus

Chapter 10: Metaphysics and the Mystical

Chapter 11: The Mystical and the Meaning of Life

Conclusion: Silence

Bibliography

Index