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This international series publishes outstanding philosophical monographs and edited volumes about Wittgenstein. Publications may focus on his work as a whole or on specific topics. The series also addresses Wittgenstein’s life, his sources, and the impact of his works. The volumes are peer-reviewed and present state-of-the-art Wittgenstein research.
German-language contributions will be published in the series Über Wittgenstein, and English-language contributions in the series On Wittgenstein.
Does Wittgenstein’s critique of metaphysics imply a rejection of absolute values and truths? In this book, Baukrowitz shows that Wittgenstein was not concerned with discarding the absolute or excluding it from everyday language. Rather, he sought to indicate the proper place of the absolute in the domain of language and to illuminate its everyday relevance. The book thus makes an important contribution to the current realism debate.
While metaphysics is traditionally seen as dealing with the essence of things, for Wittgenstein it is grammar. But what does he mean by "grammar"? And does he mean the same thing by this word throughout his philosophical career? In this investigation, I strive to contribute to answering to these questions. I argue that Wittgenstein's notion of grammar has evolved and changed over the years of his philosophising.
Wittgenstein wanted to adopt “a far-distant point of view” and look at philosophical problems from an ethnological perspective. Was his sharp confrontation with James Frazer’s principal work, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, an exercise in such an “ethnological point of view?” In this study, Brusotti shows that Wittgenstein’s thinking opened up new dimensions in language and cultural philosophy.
An eminent part of Wittgenstein’s work is his bequest. An important example of this is the largely neglected work known as the Kringel-Buch. It would be interesting to prove that this anthology of texts has been compiled by Wittgenstein himself. It might even be possible to regard the Kringel-Buch as an initial text in the development of Wittgenstein’s thinking. Scholarly investigation into the Kringel-Buch will need to address its origin, as well as its significance to Wittgenstein’s thought. However, we can already affirm that this collection of texts includes highly interesting and currently relevant interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of cultures and values. The present volume aims to launch a discussion about the significance of the Kringel-Buch.