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Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy

Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy

Badiou, Alain
Bosteels, Bruno

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1844672247
ISBN13: 9781844672240
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jul 23 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the anti-philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Addressing the crucial moment where Wittgenstein argues that much has to be passed over in silence--showing what cannot be said, after accepting the limits of language and meaning--Badiou argues that this mystical act reduces logic to rhetoric, truth to an effect of language games, and philosophy to a series of esoteric aphorisms. in the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein's anti-philosophy, Badiou sets out and refines his own definitions of the universal truths that condition philosophy. Bruno Bosteels' introduction shows that this encounter with Wittgenstein is central to Badiou's overall project--and that a continuing dialogue with the exemplar of anti-philosophy is crucial for contemporary philosophy.

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