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This original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher's literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles.
  • Updated edition of this original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games.
  • Rush Rhees was one of Wittgenstein's literary executors and closest friends, as well as being an outstanding philosopher in his own right.
  • D.Z. Phillips was Director of the Rush Rhees Archive and the Associated Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies.
  • Constitutes a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship and to philosophical debates about the possibility of discourse.
  • The second edition includes as a preface Rhees' article, The Fundamental Problems of Philosophy', first published in 1994.
  • It also includes as a second appendix some of Rhees' reflections of Wittgenstein, his te

    Table of Contents

    Note to the second edition vii

    Preface: The Fundamental Problem of Philosophy viii

    Note in editing xxi

    Introduction xxv

    Analytic table of contents xlv

    Part One Philosophy and Language

    I Plato, language and the growth of understanding 3

    II “What is language 21

    III The reality of language 33

    Part Two Games and Language

    IV Discussion and discourse 65

    V Games, calculations, discussions and conversations 81

    Part Three Beyond Wittgenstein’s Builders

    VI Signals and saying something 97

    VII Language: a family of games? 116

    VIII Understanding what is said 130

    IX Wittgenstein’s builders – recapitulation 151

    Part Four Belonging to Language

    X Conversation and institutions 173

    XI Language and generality 181

    XII Language, speaking and common intelligibility 210

    XIII Philosophy, life and language 243

    Appendix: On Wittgenstein 257

    Rush Rhees: a biographical sketch 266

    Index 276

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/03/2006
      ISBN13: 9781405132503, 978-1405132503
      ISBN10: 1405132507
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher's literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles.
      • Updated edition of this original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games.
      • Rush Rhees was one of Wittgenstein's literary executors and closest friends, as well as being an outstanding philosopher in his own right.
      • D.Z. Phillips was Director of the Rush Rhees Archive and the Associated Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies.
      • Constitutes a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship and to philosophical debates about the possibility of discourse.
      • The second edition includes as a preface Rhees' article, The Fundamental Problems of Philosophy', first published in 1994.
      • It also includes as a second appendix some of Rhees' reflections of Wittgenstein, his te

        Table of Contents

        Note to the second edition vii

        Preface: The Fundamental Problem of Philosophy viii

        Note in editing xxi

        Introduction xxv

        Analytic table of contents xlv

        Part One Philosophy and Language

        I Plato, language and the growth of understanding 3

        II “What is language 21

        III The reality of language 33

        Part Two Games and Language

        IV Discussion and discourse 65

        V Games, calculations, discussions and conversations 81

        Part Three Beyond Wittgenstein’s Builders

        VI Signals and saying something 97

        VII Language: a family of games? 116

        VIII Understanding what is said 130

        IX Wittgenstein’s builders – recapitulation 151

        Part Four Belonging to Language

        X Conversation and institutions 173

        XI Language and generality 181

        XII Language, speaking and common intelligibility 210

        XIII Philosophy, life and language 243

        Appendix: On Wittgenstein 257

        Rush Rhees: a biographical sketch 266

        Index 276

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