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Author: F. A. Flowers Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 312
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This work features a collection of memoirs, recollections and articles on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), primarily by those who knew him. It reveals many features of his character and his influence on the lifes of those he met. Personalities in his intellectual and social circle included Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, F.R. Leavis. A.J. Ayer, Karl Popper, G.H. von Wright, and Rush Rees.
Author: F. A. Flowers Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
This work features a collection of memoirs, recollections and articles on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), primarily by those who knew him. It reveals many features of his character and his influence on the lifes of those he met. Personalities in his intellectual and social circle included Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, F.R. Leavis. A.J. Ayer, Karl Popper, G.H. von Wright, and Rush Rees.
Author: F.A. Flowers III Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350046612 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 513
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Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein's extraordinary life, this unique collection reveals Wittgenstein's character and power of personality more vividly and comprehensively than ever before. With portraits from more than 50 figures, Portraits of Wittgenstein brings together the personal recollections of philosophers, students, friends and acquaintances, including Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, F. R. Leavis, A. J. Ayer, Karl Popper, Friedrich von Hayek, G. H. von Wright, Freeman Dyson, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Mary Warnock. These authors testify to the life-long influence Wittgenstein had on the lives of those he met. Their fascinating memoirs, reflections and commentaries, often at odds with each other, reveal Wittgenstein's kindness, and how much genuine friendship meant to him, as well as his suffering and despair. They show too how the philosopher's ruthless honesty and uncompromising integrity often resulted in stern advice and harsh rebukes to friends and foes alike. Now abridged and available in paperback, this collection of valuable and hard-to-find material is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author: F.A. Flowers III Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350046604 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 513
Book Description
Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein's extraordinary life, this unique collection reveals Wittgenstein's character and power of personality more vividly and comprehensively than ever before. With portraits from more than 50 figures, Portraits of Wittgenstein brings together the personal recollections of philosophers, students, friends and acquaintances, including Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, F. R. Leavis, A. J. Ayer, Karl Popper, Friedrich von Hayek, G. H. von Wright, Freeman Dyson, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Mary Warnock. These authors testify to the life-long influence Wittgenstein had on the lives of those he met. Their fascinating memoirs, reflections and commentaries, often at odds with each other, reveal Wittgenstein's kindness, and how much genuine friendship meant to him, as well as his suffering and despair. They show too how the philosopher's ruthless honesty and uncompromising integrity often resulted in stern advice and harsh rebukes to friends and foes alike. Now abridged and available in paperback, this collection of valuable and hard-to-find material is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author: Bruce Duffy Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590175654 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 496
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This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by its daring reimagining of the lives of three very different men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A brilliant group portrait with the vertiginous displacements of twentieth-century life looming large in the background, Duffy’s novel depicts times and places as various as Vienna 1900, the trenches of World War I, Bloomsbury, and the colleges of Cambridge, while the complicated main characters appear not only in thought and dispute but in love and despair. Wittgenstein, a strange, troubled, and troubling man of gnawing contradictions, is at the center of a novel that reminds us that the apparently abstract and formal questions that animate philosophy are nothing less than the intractable matters of life and death.
Author: Emmanuel Alloa Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231547579 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 290
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Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory—Aristotle’s concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision—and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices.
Author: Hingo Weber Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781514757314 Category : Languages : en Pages : 230
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Bilingual edition: English - Portuguese.Among all beings, the human beings are the only ones who are born inside out, because they come into the world to, at every act, recall a fullness that was lost at the exact moment of their birth. However, every act of existence is increasingly a forgotten act. The philosopher is the one who has this more clearly present; therefore, his disturbance at the surface of language is always greater, subjecting himself, when writing or philosophizing, to greater dangers than others who do not have this purpose.Entre todos os seres, o ser humano é o único que nasce às avessas, pois vem ao mundo para, a cada ato, recordar uma plenitude que perdeu no exato momento de seu nascimento. No entanto, cada ato do existir é cada vez mais um ato de esquecimento. O filósofo é aquele que tem isso mais claramente presente; por isso, sua perturbação à superfície da linguagem é sempre maior, sujeitando-se, ao escrever ou filosofar, a maiores perigos do que outros que não têm esse propósito.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742512702 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 440
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For Wittgenstein, philosophy was an on-going activity. Only in his dialog with the philosophical community and in his private moments does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully come to light. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author: Michael A. Peters Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811084114 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 126
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Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator. Arguing for the centrality of education to Wittgenstein’s life and works, the authors resist any reduction of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to remarks on pedagogy while addressing the current controversy surrounding the role of training in the enculturation process. Significant events in his education and life are examined as the background for successful interpretation, without lending biographical details explanatory force. The book discusses the importance of Wittgenstein’s training and dismissal as an elementary teacher (1920-26) in light of his later, frequent use (1930s-40s) of many ‘scenes of instruction’ in his Cambridge lectures and notebooks. These depictions culminated in his now famous Philosophical Investigations -- a counter to his earlier philosophy in the Tractatus. Wittgenstein came to distinguish between empirical inquiries into how education, language or mathematics might ideally work, from grammatical studies of how we learn on the rough ground to normatively go-on as others do – often without explicit rules and with considerable degrees of ambiguity, for instance, in implementing new guidelines during a curriculum reform or in evaluating teachers. The book argues that Wittgenstein’s reflections on education -- spanning from mathematics training to the acquisition of language and cultivation of aesthetic appreciation -- are of central significance to both the man and his pedagogical style of philosophy.
Author: Lila Lee-Morrison Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839448468 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 199
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Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface« and traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision. The second part addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology in the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas, and Trevor Paglen. This book argues that we must take a closer look at the technology of automated facial recognition and claims that its forms of representation are embedded with visual politics. Even more significantly, this technology is redefining what it means to see and be seen in the contemporary world.
Author: F. A. Flowers
Author: F. A. Flowers
Author: F.A. Flowers III
Author: F.A. Flowers III
Author: Bruce Duffy
Author: Emmanuel Alloa
Author: Hingo Weber
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Author: Michael A. Peters
Author: William Warren Bartley
Author: Lila Lee-Morrison