Simply Wittgenstein (Audible Audio Edition) James C Klagge Joff Manning Simply Charly Books
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Born in Vienna into an extremely wealthy and highly cultured family, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) grew up surrounded by art, music, and a disturbing amount of dysfunctional behavior. After studying mechanical engineering and developing an interest in aeronautics, he became obsessed with mathematics and logic, which led to his life's work exploring the relationship between language, philosophy, and reality.
In Simply Wittgenstein, James Klagge presents a fascinating portrait of this brilliant and troubled man, while exploring his two extraordinary books - the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations - in which he gave concrete form to his singular and perplexing ideas. Drawing on 30 years of teaching about Wittgenstein at both the undergraduate and graduate level, Klagge provides a clear and accessible introduction to these seminal works, helping the reader understand the revolutionary nature of Wittgenstein's insights and the reason they continue to resonate in our own time.
Simply Wittgenstein (Audible Audio Edition) James C Klagge Joff Manning Simply Charly Books
I like the book, but Klagge jumps around too much during his explanation of the Tractatus, to where I often lost the philosophical thread. Also, he offers too much criticism, as if such brief remarks are fair to Wittgenstein or to the reader. It would have been better to elucidate more and challenge less. In light of a better book -- namely, K.T. Fann's Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy -- this is more of a 3 1/2-star book than a 4-star book. What it does offer, more so than other books, is biographical information that's supposed to shed light on his philosophical development. I'm not sold that such biographical information is all that important, but it did intrigue me, which prompted me to buy the book. Both Klagge's and Fann's books mainly cover the important differences and similarities between the Tractatus and the Investigations. I simply found Fann's writing the more lucid and better organized.Product details
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Simply Wittgenstein (Audible Audio Edition) James C Klagge Joff Manning Simply Charly Books Reviews
Of course I am the author of this book, so you shouldn't take my word for the rating. But just to offer some info
-This is written at a genuinely beginning level. You do not need to be a philosopher to read it, though you should be interested in philosophy. The book primarily focusses on Wittgenstein's two great books Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations. You don't have to have read them already, but I do hope you will read them in conjunction with reading this, or go on to read them after reading this. I hope I have put you in a position to get the important things out of those books. And my book is especially suitable for those who have TRIED to read either of these books in the past and given up in disgust!
-I have taught Wittgenstein many many times in the last 30 years and this book is based on how I teach the material to my own students. It includes a lot of applications of Wittgenstein's ideas to interesting issues, including issues that he never considers, so it is not a narrow book.
-I just read straight through the book looking for any typos or other problems, and it took me about 3 hours. I hope it goes into enough detail to be genuinely substantive, without getting away from the idea that it is truly an introduction.
-I have my own "take" on Wittgenstein, which I have presented in "Wittgenstein in Exile," but I only mention bits of that here and there in this book.
Hope you enjoy it!
This book provides an engaging and briskly-paced introduction to Wittgenstein's ideas and life. A pleasure to read and a good resource for identifying further reading.
The best summary of Wittgenstein's work i've ever read.
This was a perfect introductory read into LW for me. Enjoyed the selected quotes and biographical details. It encourages the reader to study vs taking iron clad posistion a on his writing. Ending with LW’s last words was esp striking given his lifetime of obsession on words and their propositions one can’t help but read them as a precise and intentional departure from a lifetime of pondering.
its a small book, surely I can read it in one night. Or so I thought when I ordered it for my a month ago. I'm still struggling to understand.
But the author Klagge has done a good job introducing Wittgenstein to the world and convincing us of his importance to modern philosophy. This is not light reading but a good intellectual challenge.
This is an amazing introduction to Wittgenstein, beyond my wildest expectations. Even though it is a concise book, it explains Wittgenstein's philosophy, early and late, with clarity as well as critical reflection. What helps is the author's perfect knack for delineating the sorts of problems or issues Wittgenstein was coming to grips with in developing his ideas, followed by well chosen examples to illustrate the ideas. This book delivers Wittgenstein's thought more effectively than do ten longer books. The author, James C. Klagge, also makes subtle references to Wittgenstein's background and certain key experiences that inclined him to develop his thought in certain ways. I'd like to mention several strengths of this book. The author treats Bertrand Russell fairly by registering that the nuts and bolts portions of Tractates were addressed to Russellean issues. He explains how the core issue of Tractates evolved from the fundamental form of the proposition to the doctrine of showing and saying. This change enhanced Tractates and allowed Wittgenstein to go from technical Russellean issues to wider issues concerning how language is used, say, to show and say indications about broader and deeper questions, such as concerning ethics and the meaning of life. The author relates the story of Wittgenstein participating in discussions of the Vienna Circle by sitting with his back to them and reciting poems by Tagore while they debate issues of scientific theory -- in order to show how far removed he was from philosophical scientism. He tells of how, ten years after Wittgenstein had published Tractates and left philosophy, when hearing just part of a lecture by the philosopher of mathematics, Brouwer, Wittgenstein felt charged to reenter philosophy with new questions and approaches. This book is especially good on Wittgenstein's later thought, in which language is regarded as an integral form of life, as natural to human beings as eating, breathing, playing, and walking. Speaking is continuous with human action. Speaking takes place in definite social or interpersonal context which Wittgenstein calls language games (literally language play). Through the rich variety of human activities and their ingredient language games, concepts develop with porous borders and groups of meanings like family resemblances. The author gives full quotations regarding these Wittgensteinean ideas, and then develops them with acute fresh examples. I was particularly struck how the author applied Wittgenstein's later thoughts on language use to understand the evolving meaning of "religion" in the American legal system from being defined analytically as a belief system in a higher power to a wide range of belief systems, with higher powers or not, with ethical convictions or not, that is, illustrating the notion of family resemblances. He also took up the issue of the Confederate flag to examine how words and symbols have their now basic contents, with reference to history or testaments, and how they can be viewed or interpreted in different ways, in this case, according to whether one is a supporter who thinks the flag signifies individual liberty and freedom from big government or opposed as someone who feels offended by past associations of the flag with slavery and racism. Wittgenstein's approach seems to offer a lucid, fluent way to understand issues like the evolving meaning of religion in the American courts as well as how so many different patterns of meaning can attach to the Confederate flag. Let me finally mention that the author takes up issues surrounding the possibility of AI in the light of the opposed approaches of Wittgenstein and Alan Turing. For Turing, the question of AI can be determined by whether a machine or organism can respond significantly to a protocol of questions. He sees mastery of the rules of logic and discourse as the bottom line. For Wittgenstein, only of an organism that is very much like a human being could we possibly think of thinking, because what we regard as thinking is intimately bound up with our lives, interactions, our language games. Interestingly, this response leads us to a sort of vicious circle as to whether thinking has to be so bound up with human needs and characteristics. My comments only scratch the surface of what this book covers in accurate and interesting ways. My congratulations to the author and the editor for writing and publishing this wonderful book
I like the book, but Klagge jumps around too much during his explanation of the Tractatus, to where I often lost the philosophical thread. Also, he offers too much criticism, as if such brief remarks are fair to Wittgenstein or to the reader. It would have been better to elucidate more and challenge less. In light of a better book -- namely, K.T. Fann's Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy -- this is more of a 3 1/2-star book than a 4-star book. What it does offer, more so than other books, is biographical information that's supposed to shed light on his philosophical development. I'm not sold that such biographical information is all that important, but it did intrigue me, which prompted me to buy the book. Both Klagge's and Fann's books mainly cover the important differences and similarities between the Tractatus and the Investigations. I simply found Fann's writing the more lucid and better organized.
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