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Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics

The View from Eternity

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. B. R. Tilghman

    1. Kansas State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy (SWSP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Modernism, Modern Aesthetics and Wittgenstein

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 1-20

  3. Art and Ethics: An Historical Sketch

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 21-42

  4. Ethics and Aesthetics in the Tractatus

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 43-65

  5. The Tractatus Re-examined

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 66-90

  6. Discerning Humanity

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 91-116

  7. Discerning Art

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 117-142

  8. Discerning the Humanity in Art

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 143-172

  9. Afterword

    • B. R. Tilghman
    Pages 173-178

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-193
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The author's purpose in this volume is to present the relevance of the ideas of Wittgenstein to those interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He focuses on both the earlier work centred around the "Tractatus" and the later work of the "Philosophical Investigations".

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  • Kansas State University, USA

    B. R. Tilghman

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