Description
This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its different phases, including his own so-called phenomenological phase, relates to the variety of phenomenological approaches developed in continental Europe. In so doing, the volume seeks to throw light on both sides of the comparison, and to clarify more broadly the relations between analytic and phenomenological philosophy. However, rather than treating the interpretation of either phenomenological philosophy or Wittgenstein as an already settled issue, several chapters in the volume examine and question received views regarding them, and develop alternatives to such views. Wittgenstein and Phenomenology will be of interest to scholars working in philosophical methodology and metaphilosophy, the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Oskari Kuusela and Mihai Ometiță
1. Phenomenology in Grammar: Explicitation-verificationism, Arbitrariness, and the Vienna Circle
Mauro L. Engelmann
2. Phenomenology, Logic, and Liberation from Grammar
Denis McManus
3. Husserl and Wittgenstein on Description and Normativity
Daniel Dwyer
4. Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Notion of a Fundamental Question and the Possibility of a Genuinely Philosophical Logic
Oskari Kuusela
5. Phenomenology, Language, and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian Grammatical Investigation
Avner Baz
6. Pain and Space: the Middle Wittgenstein, the Early Merleau-Ponty
Mihai Ometiță
7. Internal Relations in Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty
Katherine J. Morris
8. Can There Be a Logic of Grief?: Why Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty Say ‘Yes’.
Rupert Read
9. Is Self-consciousness Consciousness of One’s Self?
Jean-Philippe Narboux
10. Life and World are One’. World, Self and Ethics in the Work of Levinas and Wittgenstein
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
