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43The significance of jewishness for Wittgenstein's philosophyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (4). 2000.Did Wittgenstein consider himself a Jew? Should we? Wittgenstein repeatedly wrote about Jews and Judaism in the 1930s, and biographical studies make it clear that this writing about Jewishness was a way in which he thought about the kind of person he was and the nature of his philosophical work. Those who have written about Wittgenstein on the Jews have drawn very different conclusions. But much of this debate is confused, because the notion of being a Jew, of Jewishness, is itself ambiguous and…Read more
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165Recent work on Wittgenstein, 1980–1990 (review)Synthese 98 (3): 415-458. 1994.While Wittgenstein wrote unconventionally and denied that he was advancing philosophical theses, most of his interpreters have attributed conventional philosophical theses to him. But the best recent interpretations have taken the form of his writing and his distinctive way of doing philosophy seriously. The 1980s have also seen the emergence of a body of work on Wittgenstein that makes extensive use of the unpublished Wittgenstein papers. This work on Wittgenstein's method and his way of writin…Read more
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The availability of Wittgenstein's philosophyIn Hans D. Sluga & David G. Stern (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, Cambridge University Press. 1996.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Language |