Wittgenstein and normative inquiry

by Bevir, Mark Galisanka, Andrius

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Full title :Wittgenstein and normative inquiry / edited by Mark Bevir, Andrius Gališanka.

Summary

Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry examines the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy for ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, and religion. It analyzes the intellectual contexts which shaped Wittgenstein's normative thought, traces his influences, and presents contemporary uses of his philosophy in normative fields. The chapters focus on the nature of normative inquiry. Together, they present a Wittgensteinian approach to normative inquiry, which, while broad and contested, stands in contrast to dominant deductive approaches. Arguing to normative conclusions by showing family resemblances, drawing analogies, using persuasion, appealing to naturalist arguments, authors and Wittgensteinians discussed by them expand our notion of normative inquiry.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 220 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004324107, 9004324100
oclc:ocn948670315
LC Classification:B3376.W564
Dewey Decimal:192

Intro -- Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Normative Inquiry -- 2: Normativity and Ethics in the Tractatus: Method, Self and Value -- 3: Wittgenstein: Values, Normative Inquiry, and the Problem of "Criticizing from Outside" -- 4: Wittgenstein's Blue Book, Linguistic Meaning and Music -- 5: Wittgenstein in Pitkin's Republic -- 6: "The Machine as Symbol": Wittgenstein's Contribution to the Politics of Judgment and Freedom in Contemporary Democratic Theory -- 7: Wittgenstein and Mid-20th Century Political Philosophy: Naturalist Paths from Facts to Values -- 8: Wittgenstein's Paganism -- 9: Wittgenstein and the Peculiarities of Religious "Belief" -- Index.