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Wittgenstein and Meaning in Life

In Search of the Human Voice

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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What could Wittgenstein's body of texts contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life's meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about value and 'sense of life' but also argues that his philosophy and his 'way of seeing' has far reaching implications for the way current strands in the literature (naturalism, supernaturalism, and nihilism) approach the question of life's meaning. Hosseini argues that Wittgenstein's method of doing philosophy would suggest that the focus should be shifted from finding the metaphysical and theoretical conditions of a meaningful life to an anthropological observation of the ways we enquire about life's meaning. Some of the ideas that Hosseini explores and examines are the relation between meaning in life and 'world-picture', the precedence of life over the intentional pursuit of meaning, the absence of doubt in everyday life, the rejection of theoretical dichotomy between the great and ordinary meaning, and the confessional nature of our enquiry into life's meaning.
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Sacred And The ProfaneWittgenstein and Meaning in Life

  • Title

    Wittgenstein and Meaning in Life

  • Author

    R. Hosseini

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    May 2015

  • Weight

    373g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781137440907

  • ISBN-10

    1137440902

  • Eden Code

    4317349

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