Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory write by Nigel Pleasants. This book was released on 2002-01-31. Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented preeminently by Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Renouncing the quest for an alternative Wittgensteinian theory of social and political life, the author shows that Wittgenstein nevertheless has considerable significance for critical thought and practice.
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein write by David Bloor. This book was released on 1983. Wittgenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Marx and Wittgenstein
Marx and Wittgenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marx and Wittgenstein write by Gavin Kitching. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Marx and Wittgenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein. They have argued that, once grasped, these commonalities can radically change and enrich understanding both of Marxism and of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This book develops and extends this unorthodox view, emphasising the mutual enrichment that comes from bringing Marx's and Wittgenstein's ideas into dialogue with one another. Essential reading for all scholars and philosophers interested in the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Wittgenstein, this book will also be of vital interest to those studying and researching in the fields of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of social science and political economy.
Wittgenstein among the Sciences
Wittgenstein among the Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein among the Sciences write by Rupert Read. This book was released on 2016-02-17. Wittgenstein among the Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view to dissolving the felt need for such a demarcation. In other words, Read pursues a 'therapeutic' approach to the issue of the status and nature of these subjects. Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines are analysed. A novel and significant contribution to social science methodology and the philosophy of science and 'the human sciences', this book will be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, as well as to psychiatrists, economists and cognitive scientists.
The Politics of Logic
The Politics of Logic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Logic write by Paul Livingston. This book was released on 2012-03-22. The Politics of Logic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they suggest inherent paradoxes and limitations to the structuring capacities of language or symbolic thought, have far-reaching implications for understanding the nature of political communities and their development and transformation. Alain Badiou's analysis of logical-mathematical structures forms the backbone of his comprehensive and provocative theory of ontology, politics, and the possibilities of radical change. Through interpretive readings of Badiou's work as well as the texts of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Livingston develops a formally based taxonomy of critical positions on the nature and structure of political communities. These readings, along with readings of Parmenides and Plato, show how the formal results can transfigure two interrelated and ancient problems of the One and the Many: the problem of the relationship of a Form or Idea to the many of its participants, and the problem of the relationship of a social whole to its many constituents.
