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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

Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse

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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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