Signs of Sense

Eli Friedlander

Published by Harvard University Press 2013

Signs of Sense

Reading Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Eli Friedlander

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418172

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About this book

This work seeks to shed light on one of the most enigmatic masterpieces of twentieth-century thought. At the heart of Eli Friedlander's interpretation is the internal relation between the logical and the ethical in the Tractatus, a relation that emerges in the work of drawing the limits of language.

To show how the Tractatus, far from separating the ethical and the logical into distinct domains, instead brings out their essential affinity, Friedlander focuses on Wittgenstein's use of the term "form," particularly his characterization of the form of objects. In this reading, the concept of form points to a threefold distinction in the text among the problematics of facts, objects, and the world. Most important, it provides a key to understanding how Wittgenstein's work opens a perspective on the world through the recognition of the form of objects rather than through the grasping of facts—thus revealing the dimensions of subjectivity involved in having a world, or in assuming that form of experience apart from systematic logic.

Bearing on the question of the divide between analytic and Continental philosophy, this interpretation views Wittgenstein's work as a possible mediation between these two central philosophical traditions of the modern age. It will interest Wittgenstein scholars as well as anyone concerned with twentieth-century philosophy.

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Eli Friedlander is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University.

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Part One
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 227
Illustrations
- Other: 2 line illustrations
Keywords: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.; Language and languages -- Philosophy.; Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Tractatus logico-philosophicus.; PHILOSOPHY / General

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674418172

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 2001
ISBN: 9780674418165