Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy

Alexander Berg, Denys Kaidalov

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9783110698497
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Language in Philosophy

The contributors in this volume situate Wittgenstein's philosophy within the context of Kant, Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling. They show how his philosophy both stands in the tradition of German idealism while breaking new ground. The topics of logic and language make this tension especially palpable and allow the authors to reveal new connections and offer critical perspectives.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works
• Notes on Authors
• Introduction: Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy – Logic, Language, Life
• I Logic
• Differences in Form, Identities in Content – Wittgenstein and Hegel on Two Complementary Aspects of Meaning
• What Might Hegel and Wittgenstein Have Seen in Goethe’s Colour Theory?
• Shining and Showing
• Two Faces of Contradiction
• Infinity as the Form of the Finite: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Remarks, XII and the Notion of the Infinite in the Critique of Pure Reason
• II Language
• Talking is Lying: On One Suspicious Metaphor
• Rhetoric, Negativity, and Philosophy of Language – Hegel’s Sophists as Early Wittgensteinians
• Reflections on Rule-Following
• Wittgenstein’s Übersichtliche Darstellung and Hegel’s Speculative Philosophy
• Wittgenstein and Schlegel on Forms of Life: Talking To or Past Each Other
• III Life
• Hegel, the Pragmatic Turn, and the Later Wittgenstein
• Following the Rule Without Interpreting It? – Gadamarian and Kantian Revision of Brandom’s Solution to the Wittgensteinian Problem
• Following a Rule Blindly: Hegel and Wittgenstein on the Immediacy of Habit
• Wittgenstein and Critical Theory – From ‘Sub Specie Aeterni’ to the ‘Entanglement in Our Rules’ – Wittgenstein, Adorno, Marx
• Wittgenstein and Hegel on Art and the Everyday
• Subject Index
• Person Index