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.
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"I believe Pitkin has done both political theory and philosophy a good turn with her book and that the kind of communication between the two disciplines which her work reflects is deserving of strong encouragement." -- Lloyd Reinhardt, Mind
"This book is rich in philosophical clarification and analyses of traditional philosophical problems. . . . An admirable book." -- William M. Richards, Social Praxis
"[A] generous, careful and clearly argued book . . . [which] deserves a very wide circulation, and could serve as the prototype for a whole new genre of analysis in political theory." -- Stephen E. Toulmin, American Political Science Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"This book is rich in philosophical clarification and analyses of traditional philosophical problems. . . . An admirable book." -- William M. Richards, Social Praxis
"[A] generous, careful and clearly argued book . . . [which] deserves a very wide circulation, and could serve as the prototype for a whole new genre of analysis in political theory." -- Stephen E. Toulmin, American Political Science Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Hanna Fenichel Pitkin is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli (California, 1987).
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In my study of Wittgenstein's later philosophy, the one book I have found to be the most helpful was Pitkin's. Perhaps because she works through the implications of Wittgenstein's radical philosophy for a particular set of conundra. She weaves together a tapestry from, it seems, a 1000 sources. Her use of source is amazing. Her quotes from Cavell's book are better than the book itself; that is, the bits and pieces she picks, and the order and context she provides for them, is far more coherent than the book itself. The same could be said for her presentation of Wittgenstein, of whom it could never be said that he explained his ideas clearly. Nevertheless, he got it right, and to this day few apreciate the fullness of his critique of modern philosophy or its implications. Pitkin does.
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IT IS BY no means obvious that someone interested in politics and society needs to concern himself with philosophy; nor that, in particular, he has anything to learn from an obscure, misanthropic, enigmatic philosopher like Ludwig Wittgenstein, who never wrote about such topics at all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conceptual puzzlement, language strata, perspicuous overview, inconsistent implications, language regularities, conceptual paradox, craving for generality, political membership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Must We Mean What We Say, Philosophical Papers, Semantic Analysis, Stanley Cavell, Basil Blackwell, University of California Press, Garden City, Englewood Cliffs, Hannah Arendt, Humanities Press, Foundations of Mathematics, Random House, Gilbert Ryle, Richard Taylor, Harvard University, Oxford University Press, American Political Science Review, Charles Scribner's Sons, Clarendon Press, Cornell University Press, Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, University of Chicago Press New!
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IT IS BY no means obvious that someone interested in politics and society needs to concern himself with philosophy; nor that, in particular, he has anything to learn from an obscure, misanthropic, enigmatic philosopher like Ludwig Wittgenstein, who never wrote about such topics at all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conceptual puzzlement, language strata, perspicuous overview, inconsistent implications, language regularities, conceptual paradox, craving for generality, political membership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Must We Mean What We Say, Philosophical Papers, Semantic Analysis, Stanley Cavell, Basil Blackwell, University of California Press, Garden City, Englewood Cliffs, Hannah Arendt, Humanities Press, Foundations of Mathematics, Random House, Gilbert Ryle, Richard Taylor, Harvard University, Oxford University Press, American Political Science Review, Charles Scribner's Sons, Clarendon Press, Cornell University Press, Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, University of Chicago Press New!
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- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 89 pages
- Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell on 36 pages
- Semantic Analysis by P. Ziff on 25 pages
- Philosophical Papers (Clarendon Paperbacks) by J. L. Austin on 25 pages
- Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein and G.E.M. Anscombe on 22 pages
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- Justice for an Unjust Society (Value Inquiry Book Series 3) by H. P. P. Lotter on 5 pages
- The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy by Cressida J. Heyes in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Creating Insecurity: Realism, Constructivism, and Us Security Policy (Critical Security Series) by Anthony D. Lott on page 42, and Back Matter
- Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement by Gavin N. Kitching in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues (Philosophy and the Human Situation) by Richard H. Bell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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