
Wittgenstein Reads Weininger.
Title:
Wittgenstein Reads Weininger.
Author:
Stern, David G.
ISBN:
9780511210631
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading -- Wittgenstein's Influences -- Why Weininger? -- The Uses of Reading -- Early Assessments -- Reassessments -- Notes -- References -- 1 Eggshells or Nourishing Yolk? -- Did Weininger Influence the Later Wittgenstein? -- Externalist-Negative Approaches -- Direct Evidence -- A Positive Textual Approach: Wittgenstein Rereads Weininger -- Clarification -- Reverence, Language, Similes, and Projection -- Anti-essentialism -- Attention to Particulars -- A Heuristic Role for the Ideal -- Philosophical Error and the Teaching of Difference -- Wittgenstein, Weininger, and Spengler on the Prototype -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- 2 Weininger and the Two Wittgensteins -- Notes -- 3 Sex and Solipsism -- Introduction -- Weininger in Translation -- Sex -- Solipsism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Wittgenstein and Weininger -- Notes -- 5 Uncanny Differences -- Weininger's "Theory of Double Life": Genius or Criminal? -- Theory of Judgment: Logic and Ethics -- Definitions (Criminal, Genius, Science, Culture, Religion, Philosophy): The Quest for the Self -- Tragedy -- The Form of Weininger's Thought "+" Hyper-empirical ideal/ …Empirical Continuum…/Hyper-empirical ideal "-" -- An Aesthetic Theory of Judgment -- Logic and Ethics: The Philosopher as Criminal -- The Dissolution of Tragedy -- Conclusion: Wittgenstein's Double Perspective: General Relativism versus Personal Fundamentalism -- Epilogue: Spirit and Doppelgänger -- Spirit -- Doppelgänger -- The same complex of phenomena is taken up again in Sex and Character -- Notes -- 6 Weininger and Wittgenstein on "Animal Psychology" -- Introduction -- Lichtenberg: "Wherever We Look, We See Only Ourselves." -- Weininger's "Animal Psychology" -- Wittgenstein's "Animal Psychology".
Conclusion: Looking, and Seeing Differences -- Notes -- References.
Abstract:
This book explores the various ways in which Wittgenstein absorbed and responded to Weininger's ideas.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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