This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein has most often been treated as a thinker whose ideas can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. The thrust of this work, by a leading exponent of Wittgenstein's thought, is to insist upon - and to demonstrate in detail - the mutual relevance of Wittgenstein's work and the tradition of Western philosophy. Far from overthrowing or stepping outside that tradition, Wittgenstein builds on it, draws from it, and contributes brilliantly to the fruition of certain elements in it. In This ...
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Overview

Wittgenstein has most often been treated as a thinker whose ideas can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. The thrust of this work, by a leading exponent of Wittgenstein's thought, is to insist upon - and to demonstrate in detail - the mutual relevance of Wittgenstein's work and the tradition of Western philosophy. Far from overthrowing or stepping outside that tradition, Wittgenstein builds on it, draws from it, and contributes brilliantly to the fruition of certain elements in it. In This Complicated Form of Life, Garver analyzes from several angles Wittgenstein's relationship to Kant, and to what Finch has called Wittgenstein's completion of Kant's revolt against the Cartesian hegemony of epistemology in philosophy. But with respect to the givenness of "this complicated form of life", Wittgenstein appears closer to Aristotle than to Kant. Seeing Wittgenstein within the Western philosophical tradition requires a fresh look at Wittgenstein as well as at the tradition. Among the themes of this work: that the principal metaphysical claim of the Tractatus is that the world is the totality of facts; that grammar is the key to Wittgenstein's later work because philosophy is a form of grammar; and that a certain sort of transcendentality pervades Wittgenstein's thought.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780812692532
  • Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 1/28/1994
  • Pages: 340
  • Product dimensions: 6.66 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1 Wittgenstein and the Critical Tradition 3
Ch. 2 Analyticity and Grammar 19
Ch. 3 Schemata and Criteria 51
Ch. 4 From Categories to Language-Games 61
Ch. 5 Wittgenstein's Reception in America 75
Ch. 6 The Metaphysics of the Tractatus 89
Ch. 7 Dualism 111
Ch. 8 Pantheism 133
Ch. 9 Science and Natural History 149
Ch. 10 Neither Knowing nor Not Knowing 159
Ch. 11 Criteria 177
Ch. 12 Meaning That Is Not Use 197
Ch. 13 Private Language 205
Ch. 14 Grammar and Metaphysics 217
Ch. 15 Form of Life 237
Ch. 16 Naturalism and the Transcendental 269
References 289
Index of Citations 299
Name Index 305
Subject Index 311
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