Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-3250-3
Paperback
352 pages
May 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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This original critique of Wittgenstein’s analogy between
language and games, written by one of the philosopher’s
literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to
include two additional articles.
- 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.