An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (O' Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (O' Sullivan Michael)(Paperback)

Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a fine analytical mind. Taking an argument from

Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Pevná vazba)

Philosophical Investigations New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I: Essays G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker Second,

Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939 (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback)

For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture. He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with some of the class sitting in chairs, some on the

An Analysis of Ludwig Von Mises's the Theory of Money and Credit (Belton Pdraig)(Paperback)

Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback / softback)

In this definitive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein experts Peter Hacker and Joachim Schulte have incorporated significant editorial changes to earlier editions of Philosophical Investigations in order to reflect more closely Wittgenstein's original

The Blue and Brown Books: Preliminary Studies for the 'Philosophical Investigation' (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback)

These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the 'Brown Book' was a

Wittgenstein's Investigations: Awakening the Imagination (Savickey Beth)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a study of Wittgenstein's descriptive, improvisational, and performative art of philosophical investigation. In addition to clarifying the nature of Wittgenstein's grammatical investigations, this study highlights several neglected aspects of his work: its humour and playfulness, its

Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture (Last Nana)(Paperback)

Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the

Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback)

Zettel, an en face bilingual edition, collects fragments from Wittgenstein's work between 1929 and 1948 on issues of the mind, mathematics, and

An Analysis of Hannah Arendt's the Human Condition (Saeidnia Sahar Aurore)(Paperback)

Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt's interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display

Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951 - 1912-1951 (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback / softback)

Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (Perloff Marjorie)(Paperback)

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that 'philosophy ought really to be

Wittgenstein's Family Letters: Corresponding with Ludwig (McGuinness Brian)(Paperback)

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.In letters written over forty years, we see how his ideas and relationships developed during his time as a prisoner of war, a school

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (Mises Ludwig Von)(Paperback)

More than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: 'It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . . To none of us young men who read the book when it appeared was the

Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Duty of Genius (Monk Ray)(Paperback / softback)

In this biography of Wittgenstein, the author interleaves the philosophical and emotional aspects of his subject's

Aquinas and Evolution (Chaberek Michael)(Paperback)

'Fr. Michael Chaberek makes an excellent textual, philosophical, and theological case that the Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas on human origins is incompatible with macroscopic evolutionary theory, even so-called 'theistic evolution.' A must read for Thomists and non-Thomists alike.' David Arias,

An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film (Ryan Michael)(Paperback)

Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (Wittgenstein Ludwig)(Paperback)

'The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language. Its whole meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows: What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one

Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz: A European (Meyer T. H.)(Paperback)

Thomas Meyer's major biography of Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945) offers a panoramic view of an exceptional life. One of Rudolf Steiner's most valued and independent-minded colleagues, Polzer-Hoditz was born in Prague (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire) to an aristocratic family with royal

Queering the Museum (Sullivan Nikki)(Paperback)

Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern

The Future of Nostalgia (Boym Svetlana)(Paperback)

Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (Schlesinger W. H.)(Paperback)

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, Fourth Edition, considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been, and are being, affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the

An Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince (Quinn Riley)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice (Maggio Rodolfo)(Paperback)