In Search of Meaning
Ludwig Wittgenstein on Ethics, Mysticism and Religion
The essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. This book is an attempt to express the difficult nature of ethics, mysticism and religion, their problematic status in the modern world, and the possible justifications for ethical and religious commitment. Naturally, it also discusses some of the main ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His very personal and often aphoristic way of writing cannot simply b...
Éditeur : KIT Scientific Publishing
Lieu d’édition : Karlsruhe
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 12 janvier 2017
ISBN numérique : 978-2-8218-7419-0
Collection : KIT Scientific Publishing
Année d’édition : 2009
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-3-86644-218-4
Nombre de pages : XII-150
Dieter Mersch
Suzanne Kirkbright (trad.)
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words.”(TLP 6.522) Wittgenstein’s Ethics of Showing
Liam Hughes
‘If there is any value that does have value, it must lie outside the whole sphere of what happens and is the case.’(Tractatus 6.41)
Genia Schönbaumsfeld
‘Objectively there is no truth’ – Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Religious BeliefThe essays collected in this volume explore some of the themes that have been at the centre of recent debates within Wittgensteinian scholarship. This book is an attempt to express the difficult nature of ethics, mysticism and religion, their problematic status in the modern world, and the possible justifications for ethical and religious commitment. Naturally, it also discusses some of the main ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His very personal and often aphoristic way of writing cannot simply be restated or interpreted. However, his philosophy is in need of interpretation, and interpretations are — as we all know — often rather controversial.
The collected contributions aim, therefore, at bringing new insight into the essence of Wittgenstein‘s ethical and religious beliefs by understanding his concepts of thought and language in a more detailed way. In opposition to what we are tentatively inclined to think, the articles of this volume invite us to understand that our need to grasp the essence of ethical and religious thought and language will not be achieved by metaphysical theories expounded from such a point of view, but by focusing on our everyday forms of expression. The articles have in common an understanding of Wittgenstein as not proposing metaphysical theories, but rather showing us the way to work ourselves out of the confusions we become entangled in when philosophizing. Thus, the authors show from a Wittgensteinian perspective that the standard modern approaches to ethics cannot justify traditional moral beliefs.
Ulrich Arnswald (dir.)
Ulrich Arnswald studied economics, political science and philosophy at Heidelberg, Kent at Canterbury and at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Since 2005 he is a lecturer in philosophy at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). He is the editor or co-editor of a number of books including Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans- Georg Gadamer (MIT Press, 2002), Wittgenstein und die Metapher (Parerga, 2004), Die Zukunft der Geisteswissenschaften (Manutius, 2005). He has published widely in the field of philosophy of language, political philosophy as well as Wittgenstein’s philosophy.

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