Wittgenstein And Political Theory

Author : Cressida J. Heyes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488382
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Politics written by Cressida J. Heyes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the variety of ways political philosophers understand Wittgenstein's importance to their discipline and apply Wittgensteinian methods to their own projects.

Author : Cressida Heyes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725637
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Politics written by Cressida Heyes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Wittgenstein's work has been widely interpreted and appropriated by subsequent philosophers, as well as by scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, law, and medicine. The Grammar of Politics demonstrates the variety of ways political philosophers understand Wittgenstein's importance to their discipline and apply Wittgensteinian methods to their own projects. In her introduction, Cressida J. Heyes notes that Wittgenstein himself was skeptical of political theory, and that his philosophy does not lead naturally or inexorably toward any particular political position. Instead, she says, his ideas motivate certain attitudes toward the "game of politics" that the essays in this volume share: some contributors argue that political theory should use Wittgensteinian methods, others apply Wittgenstein's philosophy of language to figures and debates in areas of political theory (such as post-Kantian genealogy or Habermas's foundationalism), and still others reveal the ways Wittgenstein's concepts inform political foci as diverse as anthropomorphism, defining social group membership, and the nature of liberty. "All the contributors," Heyes writes, "take their lead from Wittgenstein's attempts to break the hold of certain pictures that tacitly direct our language and thus our forms of life. Making these pictures visible as pictures reveals the hitherto concealed structure and the contingency of certain ways of thinking about politics."

Author : Christopher C Robinson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748687947
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Political Theory written by Christopher C Robinson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, newly available in paperback, relates Wittgenstein's philosophy to a range of problems and trends in contemporary political theory.

Author : Michael Temelini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646330
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics written by Michael Temelini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics, Michael Temelini outlines an innovative new approach to understanding the political implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Most political philosophers who have approached Wittgenstein have done so through the idea of therapeutic skepticism, implying politics that privilege conservatism or non-interference. Temelini interprets Wittgenstein differently, emphasizing his view that we come to understand the meanings of words and actions through a dialogue of comparison with other cases. Examining the work of Charles Taylor, Quentin Skinner, and James Tully, Temelini highlights the ways in which all three, despite their differences, share a common debt to that dialogical approach. A cogent explanation of how Wittgenstein's epistemology and ontology can shed light on political issues and offer a solution to political challenges, Wittgenstein and the Study of Politics highlights the importance of Wittgensteinian thinking in contemporary political science, political theory, and political philosophy.

Author : Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520054714
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Justice written by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.

Author : Paul Livingston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113665674X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Logic written by Paul Livingston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and structure of political communities. These readings, along with readings of Parmenides and Plato, show how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the problem of the relationship of a Form or Idea to the many of its participants, and the problem of the relationship of a social whole to its many constituents.

Author : Gavin Kitching
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134538545
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marx and Wittgenstein written by Gavin Kitching and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasising the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. Essential reading for all scholars and philosophers interested in the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Wittgenstein, this book will also be of vital interest to those studying and researching in the fields of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of social science and political economy.

Author : Robin Holt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134734549
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights written by Robin Holt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel. Using Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book considers the liberal position on human rights, along with the communitarian and pragmatic attacks, and challenges the intelligibility of each from the perspective of what it is to be a language user. Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights argues that moral relations are not dead; but that their life resides with the on-going relations of selves governed by universal principles.

Author : John G. Gunnell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666127X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry written by John G. Gunnell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices. John G. Gunnell argues for conventional realism as a theory of social phenomena and an approach to the study of politics. Drawing on Wittgenstein’s critique of “mentalism” and traditional realism, Gunnell argues that everything we designate as “real” is rendered conventionally, which entails a rejection of the widely accepted distinction between what is natural and what is conventional. The terms “reality” and “world” have no meaning outside the contexts of specific claims and assumptions about what exists and how it behaves. And rather than a mysterious source and repository of prelinguistic meaning, the “mind” is simply our linguistic capacities. Taking readers through contemporary forms of mentalism and realism in both philosophy and American political science and theory, Gunnell also analyzes the philosophical challenges to these positions mounted by Wittgenstein and those who can be construed as his successors.

Author : John William DANFORD
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Wittgenstein and political philosophy written by John William DANFORD and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: