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Augustine and Wittgenstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation SeriesPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498585279
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Augustine and WittgensteinDDC classification:
  • 189.2
LOC classification:
  • BR65.A9A863 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Wittgenstein and Augustine De Magistro -- The Dialogue De Magistro -- Wittgenstein and the Confessions -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Learning by Ostension in Augustine and Wittgenstein -- Part I: What Wittgenstein Misunderstood -- Part II: What Wittgenstein Did Learn -- Part III: What Wittgenstein Should Have Learned -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- In the Beginning -- Names for Needs -- Deliverance -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The Swine and the Chatterbox -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Wittgenstein, Ritual, and "St. Augustine's Attitude to Sex" -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Wittgenstein and Augustine on Seeing Miracles -- Eyes of the Body, and Eyes of the Mind -- Miracles and Eyes in Augustine's Reading of John -- Wittgenstein and the Ordinariness of Wonders -- Seeing Wonders -- In Front of Our Eyes -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Original Sense -- Sensitivity to Origins: Where We First Learn to Speak -- Augustine on True Religion: The Origins of Religion -- Myths of Origin: Religion as a Return to Origins -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Wittgenstein, Augustine, and the Content of Memory -- I. Twelve Wittgensteinian Themes -- II. Augustine's Conception of Memory: A Wittgensteinian Progress -- III. Wittgenstein on the Grammar of "Remembering": An Augustinian Investigation -- IV. Conclusion: Carrying Augustine's Research -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- Time and Freedom in the Confessions and the Tractatus -- The Hidden Psychology (Of Seeing Yourself) -- The Freedom That Has Never Existed -- Time Is Not On Our Side -- Logic Can't Hear You Scream -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- Augustine and Wittgenstein on the Will -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This collection of essays focuses on Augustine's relationship to Wittgenstein and critically examines the two in light of various philosophical connections between them. Its scope is intentionally broad in order to show that reading each of these philosophers through the lens of the other enhances our understanding of both.
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Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Wittgenstein and Augustine De Magistro -- The Dialogue De Magistro -- Wittgenstein and the Confessions -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Learning by Ostension in Augustine and Wittgenstein -- Part I: What Wittgenstein Misunderstood -- Part II: What Wittgenstein Did Learn -- Part III: What Wittgenstein Should Have Learned -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- In the Beginning -- Names for Needs -- Deliverance -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The Swine and the Chatterbox -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Wittgenstein, Ritual, and "St. Augustine's Attitude to Sex" -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Wittgenstein and Augustine on Seeing Miracles -- Eyes of the Body, and Eyes of the Mind -- Miracles and Eyes in Augustine's Reading of John -- Wittgenstein and the Ordinariness of Wonders -- Seeing Wonders -- In Front of Our Eyes -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Original Sense -- Sensitivity to Origins: Where We First Learn to Speak -- Augustine on True Religion: The Origins of Religion -- Myths of Origin: Religion as a Return to Origins -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Wittgenstein, Augustine, and the Content of Memory -- I. Twelve Wittgensteinian Themes -- II. Augustine's Conception of Memory: A Wittgensteinian Progress -- III. Wittgenstein on the Grammar of "Remembering": An Augustinian Investigation -- IV. Conclusion: Carrying Augustine's Research -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- Time and Freedom in the Confessions and the Tractatus -- The Hidden Psychology (Of Seeing Yourself) -- The Freedom That Has Never Existed -- Time Is Not On Our Side -- Logic Can't Hear You Scream -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- Augustine and Wittgenstein on the Will -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This collection of essays focuses on Augustine's relationship to Wittgenstein and critically examines the two in light of various philosophical connections between them. Its scope is intentionally broad in order to show that reading each of these philosophers through the lens of the other enhances our understanding of both.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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