Wittgenstein's antiphilosophy / Alain Badiou ; translated with an introduction by Bruno Bosteels.
"Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed ove...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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| Summary: | "Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence—showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning—Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, truth to an effect of language games, and philosophy to a series of esoteric aphorisms."--Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | "Published first in French as: L'antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein. Editions Nous, Caen, 2009"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 186 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1844676943 9781844676941 |