Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy

Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, write in such a curious fashion that they confused a whole generation of disciples and created a cottage industry for a second generation in the interpretation of their works? Do those c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janik, A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Style and Idea in the Later Heidegger: Rhetoric, Politics and Philosophy
  • II. Nyíri on the Conservatism of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
  • III. Wittgenstein, Marx and Sociology
  • IV. On Edification and Cultural Conversation: A Critique of Rorty
  • V. Towards a Wittgensteinian Metaphysics of the Political
  • VI. Culture, Controversy and the Human Studies
  • VII. The Politics of Conciliation
  • VIII. Discussing Technology — Breaking the Ground
  • IX. Socialization is Creative Because Creativity is Social
  • X. Myth and Certainty
  • XI. Self-Deception, Naturalism and Certainty: Prolegomena to a Critical Hermeneutics
  • XII. Psychoanalysis: Science, Literature or Art?
  • XIII. Between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment: The Self-Critical Rationalism of G. C. Lichtenberg
  • XIV. Tacit Knowledge, Working Life and Scientific Method
  • XV. Paradigms, Politics and Persuasion: Sociological Aspects of Musical Controversy
  • Afterword with Acknowledgements
  • Index of Names