Gadamer and Wittgenstein on the Unity of Language
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analogy
atomism
Author_Patrick Rogers Horn
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Common Intelligibility
Common Language
dialogical understanding
Elementary Propositions
Epistemological Justification
Epistemological Problem
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Gadamer's Attempt
Gadamer's Concept
Gadamer's Theory
Gadamer’s Attempt
Gadamer’s Concept
Gadamer’s Theory
game
Game Analogy
Hermeneutical Experience
hermeneutics
Illegitimate Prejudices
language games
logical
Logical Atomism
Logical Space
metaphysical critique
ontological
Ontological Structure
Perfect Logical Order
philosophical
Philosophical Hermeneutics
philosophy of language
Priori Structure
Rush Rhees analysis
Skeptical Gap
structure
Timeless
unity of language in philosophical discourse
universal
Universal History
Universal Ontological Structure
Unlimited
Wittgenstein's Builders
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
wittgensteins
Wittgenstein’s Builders
Wittgenstein’s Logical Atomism
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- ISBN 9780754609698
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality. Patrick Horn's starting point is the widely accepted view that both philosophers rejected a certain metaphysical account of that relation in which reality determines the nature of language. Horn proceeds to argue that Gadamer never completely escaped metaphysical assumptions in his search for the unity of language. In this respect, argues Horn, Gadamer's work is nearer to the earlier rather than to the later Wittgenstein. The final chapter of the book highlights the work of Wittgenstein’s pupil Rush Rhees, who shows that Wittgenstein's own later emphasis on language games, while doing justice to the variety of language, does less than justice to the dialogical relation between speakers of a language, wherein the unity of language resides. Contrasting Rhees's account of the unity of language with those given by Gadamer and the early Wittgenstein brings out the importance of understanding reality in terms of the life that people share rather than in terms of what philosophers say about reality.
Patrick Rogers Horn is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor at the School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA.
