Wittgenstein's On Certainty
There - Like Our Life
Rush Rhees author D Z Phillips editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:20th Dec '02
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- Paperback£31.95(9781405134248)
Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality – topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.
- Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, On Certainty, by one of his closest friends.
- Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty and shows that it is an essay on logic.
- Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions.
- Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.
"This book contains illuminating remarks and a novel perspective on an important and widely discussed classic. And it has a special authority, being the work of one of the author’s best students and closest friends." William Brenner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
"This book contains two remarkable and original contributions by Rush Rhees and D. Z. Phillips to the burgeoning scholarship on Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. I recommend it strongly." Avrum Stroll, University of California, San Diego
ISBN: 9781405105798
Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 20mm
Weight: 435g
208 pages