Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life
Published by Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA / Oxford, 2003
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Rhees's notes and commentary on Wittgenstein's last work, On Certainty; Rhees was a friend of Wittgenstein's and an important interpreter of his work. Editor Phillips discusses how this book was assembled, and the then-current state of scholarship related to On Certainty. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; light wear to book & jacket; near fine. Text clean; x, 195 pages; appendixes, notes, index. Size: Octavo.
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- Title
- Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life
- Author
- Rhees, Rush; edited by D. Z. Phillips [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA / Oxford
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- ISBN 10
- 1405105798
- ISBN 13
- 9781405105798
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy
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- 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.
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About the Author
D. Z. Phillips is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Rush Rhees Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Danworth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate School, California. He has published widely in the philosophy of religion and ethics; some of his more recent books include Interventions in Ethics (1992), Wittgenstein and Religion (1993) and Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation (2001). He is also editor of the Blackwell journal Philosophical Investigations.
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