Wittgenstein And The Idea Of A Critical Social Theory

Author : Nigel Pleasants
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134657331
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory written by Nigel Pleasants and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented preeminently by Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Renouncing the quest for an alternative Wittgensteinian theory of social and political life, the author shows that Wittgenstein nevertheless has considerable significance for critical thought and practice.

Author : David Bloor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein written by David Bloor and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Thomas Wallgren
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113615
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformative Philosophy written by Thomas Wallgren and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 125.00 The recent cross-fruition between analytical philosophy and continental philosophical traditions has stimulated an intense interest in the philosophy of philosophy. At stake in the debate is our understanding of the role of philosophy and of the use of argument and reason in culture.Transformative Philosophy articulates a new conception of philosophy through a discussion of salient themes in the analytical tradition, in the work of the later Wittgenstein, and in critical theory. Wallgren traces the genealogy leading to the present impasse on the discourse of philosophy; discusses authors such as Quine, Peter Winch, Michael Dummett, and Ernst Tugendhat; and considers Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy and of the private language argument. Drawing on an analysis of the relations between truth, communal agreement, and the role of the personal will in philosophical argumentation, Transformative Philosophy develops an image of philosophy as a transformative care for self and others. This work makes a great contribution to the study of philosophy and social theory

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 : Rupert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134770235
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein among the Sciences written by Rupert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation. In other words, Read pursues a 'therapeutic' approach to the issue of the status and nature of these subjects. Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines are analysed. A novel and significant contribution to social science methodology and the philosophy of science and 'the human sciences', this book will be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, as well as to psychiatrists, economists and cognitive scientists.

Author : Sean Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498583601
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Critical Thinking written by Sean Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first clear and unproblematic account of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s method and its consequences for good thinking. It has radical implications for conceptual investigation, analysis, value judgment, political ideology, ethics, and even religion.

Author : John B. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521276665
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Hermeneutics written by John B. Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative critique of ordinary language philosophy, hermeneutics and critical theory.

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 : Nigel John Pleasants
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Download or read book A Wittgensteinian Critique of Critical Social Theory written by Nigel John Pleasants and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: