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Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3250-3
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352 pages
May 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Updated edition of this original critique of Wittgenstein’s analogy between language and games.
  • Rush Rhees was one of Wittgenstein’s literary executors and closest friends, as well as being an outstanding philosopher in his own right.
  • D.Z. Phillips was Director of the Rush Rhees Archive and the Associated Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies.
  • Constitutes a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship and to philosophical debates about the possibility of discourse.
  • The second edition includes as a preface Rhees’ article, ‘The Fundamental Problems of Philosophy’, first published in 1994.
  • It also includes as a second appendix some of Rhees’ reflections of Wittgenstein, his teacher.
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