Philosophy of Wittgenstein : Indian Responses

Contents: Introduction. 1. Attacking modern western civilisation: Mahatma Gandhi and Ludwig Wittgenstein/Suresh Chandra. 2. Speech and silence in western philosophy: critique of Wittgenstein from an Indian point of view/ Srinivasa Rao. 3. Language-game, grounding and the metaphysics of meaning/ Ahmed Nizar. 4. Criteria and the conceptual structure/Amitabha Dasgupta. 5.On the problem of communication: Wittgenstein versus Habermas/S. Paneerselvam. 6. Wittgenstein on private language/P.R. Bhat. 7. Kripke- McGinn controversy on rule and rule-following/Ganesh Prasad Das. 8. Wittgenstein on necessity and objectivity in mathematics and logic/Sadhan Chakraborti. 9. Logical necessity, conventionalism and forms of life: Wittgenstein's philosophy revisited/R.C. Pradhan. 10. Wittgenstein's philosophy of language: a feminist response/Shefali Moitra. 11. The language of face: Wittgenstein on cinema/Sanil V. 12. Exploring the grammar of emotion words/G.P. Ramachandra. Index. "The book is an open- minded evaluation of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language from fresh perspectives to bring out its contemporary significance. Including papers presented by noted Indian philosophers at a national seminar, it examines the special place of Wittgenstein in the development of philosophy in the west in the twentieth century. "The papers offer an in-depth critique of Wittgenstein's theories on the limits and structure of language, operationalism in philosophy of language, idea of a private language, necessity of mathematics and logical truths, grammar of the. 213 pp. …