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Author Atkinson, James R

Title The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (158 pages)
Series Studies in Philosophy
Studies in Philosophy
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Self-subsistence and Method; 2 What cannot be put into Words, Method and Mysticism; 3 Language, Method and Mysticism; 4 Showing and Wittgenstein's Two Objections to Russell's Theory of Types; 5 Two Senses of Showing; 6 The Mystical and Showing; 7 Time and The Mystical; 8 Mysticism and the Problems of Philosophy; 9 Nonsense and Two Interpretations of the Tractatus; 10 Metaphysics and the Mystical; 11 The Mystical and the Meaning of Life; Conclusion: Silence; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book considers the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson elucidates Wittgensteins thoughts on the mystical as they pertain to a number of topics such as, God, the meaning of life, reality, the eternal and the solipsistic self
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Subject Mysticism.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig -- 1889-1951. -- Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Mysticism
mysticism.
Mysticism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203879931
0203879937
1282065513
9781282065512