Wittgenstein: rules, grammar and necessity : volume II of an analytical commentary on the philosophical investigations Essays and exegesis 185-242

This is an extensively revised second edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammarand Necessity, the second volume of Baker and Hackers renowned analytical commentary on Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations. Comprising both detailed exegesis and interpretative essays, this edition includes comprehensively revised coverage of some of the most important and widely discussed passages in Wittgensteins entire writings, namely his intricate and controversial remarks on following rules (oo 189-242). The new edition draws on the full resources of the search engine of the electronic publication of the Nachlass and takes into account the extensive debates on the themes associated with these sections of Wittgensteins masterwork over the last quarter of a century. All the essayshave been revised and one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following has been added to the previous six. These deal with the relationship between the alternative continuations of the early draft of theInvestigations; with Wittgenstein's conception of grammar and rules of grammar; with the relation between a rule and what accords with it; with the characterization of rule-following as mastery of a technique manifest in practice; with the notion of a form of life and agreements in definitions and judgements. The major essay 'Grammar and necessity' has been greatly extended. It providesan overview of Wittgenstein's revolutionary and little understood analysis ofthe propositions of logic, mathematics and metaphysics. Insightful and thought-provoking, the second edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity constitutes a key contribution to the ongoing analysis of one of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8408-3
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 20/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés