This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Having once said that "Colours spur us to philosophize", the theme of colour was one to which Wittgenstein returned constantly throughout his career. Ranging from his Notebooks, 1914-1916 and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the posthumously published Remarks on Colours and On Certainty, this book explores how both his view of philosophical problems generally and his view on colours specifically changed considerably over time. Paying particular attention to his so-called intermediary period, it takes a case-based approach to the presentation of colour in texts from this period, from Some Remarks on Logical Form and Philosophical Remarks to his Big Typescript.
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Colours in the development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
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Aesthetics in PhilosophyTable of contents
- Contents
- Abbreviations for Wittgenstein’s Works
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Minima Visibilia, Single-Colored Patches, Points: Logical Analysis and its Visual Instances in Wittgenstein’s Early Notebooks
- 3 Incompatible Colours and the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
- 4 Tractatus Objects and the Logic of Color Incompatibility
- 5 What Does a Phenomenological Language Do? (Revisiting Some Remarks on Logical Form in Its Context)
- 6 Logic and Phenomenology: WittgensteinRamseySchlick in Colour-Exclusion
- 7 The “Color Problem”: Infinity and the Development of Wittgenstein’s Thinking
- 8 Wittgenstein on Contradiction and Contrariety: Four Turning Points in the Development of his Philosophy of Logic
- 9 The Grammar of Colours Advanced in Wittgenstein’s Middle Period
- 10 Using Colors: Phenomenology vs. Phenomenological Problems
- 11 Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology
- 12 Wittgenstein on Colour and the Formation of Concepts
- 13 Colours, Phenomelogy and Certainty: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colours in the Context of His Later Philosophy
- 14 The Harmony of Colour Concepts: Bridging the Early and the Late Wittgenstein
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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