Introducing Wittgenstein
A Graphic Guide
Published on 1. December 2014
176 pages
978-1-84831-875-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.
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John Heaton is a psychotherapist and was a colleague of R.D. Laing. He studied natural and moral sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, attending lectures by Bertrand Russell. Judy Groves is a painter, illustrator and designer who has worked on numerous Introducing titles including Chomsky, Philosophy and Plato
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Engineering in Manchester, England
- Cambridge University
- Solitude
- The First World War
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Facts are not Things
- Facts, Pictures and States of Affairs
- Non-Existential Truths
- Names, Objects and Conceptual Relations
- Philosophy and Science
- What is Thought?
- The Problem of the Self
- No Self
- Ethics
- What is Happiness?
- A Perfect House
- Falling in Love?
- A Flaw in Wittgenstein's Logic
- The Vienna Circle
- How Did Wittgenstein Teach?
- Falling in Love Again
- Personality
- After the Tractatus
- Philosophical Investigations
- What Is Philosophy?
- Therapy by Investigation
- Taking For Granted .
- The Method
- The Hypnotism of Language
- The Therapy of Illusion - Description
- Language and Thought
- Reporting a Thought
- Language Games
- Can We Stand Outside Language?
- Pointing
- Our Origins
- Family Resemblances
- Roots or Bulbs?
- Mathematics and Rules
- The Inner and the Outer
- First and Third Persons
- Seeing Aspects
- Meaning Blindness
- Certainty
- River-Bed Propositions
- Further Reading
- Biography
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Index
