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Introducing Wittgenstein

Door John Heaton

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#359213-ZE12
Titel
Introducing Wittgenstein
Auteur
Heaton, John
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Duxford : Icon Books
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
9024645026
ISBN13
9789024645022
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, ilustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Ludwig Wittgenstein has captured the popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the fascinating master of enigmatic reasoning who, with his icy logic, convinced Bertrand Russell that there was a hippo in the room. He is an icon of modernism, but what did he really say?
In Introducing Wittgenstein we meet a strange man, a rigorous logician who prized poetry above philosophy, who inherited a fortune and gave it away, who sought death in the trenches of the First World War, a great teacher who advised his students to give up philosophy, a solitary man who nonetheless inspired lifelong friendships. We are also given a clear and accessible guide to Wittgenstein's central work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a glacier of logic, and his later, friendlier Philosophical Investigations. Here
... (Lees verder)is an accessible introduction for anyone baffled by the complexity or intrigued by the reputation of this great 20th-century philosopher.
Pagina's
175
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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