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Language and solitude : Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg dilemma

Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Ludwig Wittgenstein; Bronislaw Malinowski; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Bronislaw Malinowski; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Bronislaw Malinowski; Bronisław Malinowski; Ludwig Wittgenstein
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ernest Gellner
ISBN: 0521630029 9780521630023 0521639972 9780521639972
OCLC Number: 38073381
Description: xix, 209 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface / David N. Gellner Foreword / Steven Lukes pt. I. The Habsburg dilemma. 1. Swing alone or swing together. 2. The rivals. 3. Genesis of the individualist vision. 4. The metaphysics of romanticism. 5. Romanticism and the basis of nationalism. 6. Individualism and holism in society. 7. Crisis in Kakania. 8. Pariah liberalism. 9. Recapitulation pt. II. Wittgenstein. 10. The loneliness of the long distance empiricist. 11. The poem to solitude, or: confessions of a transcendental ego who is also a Viennese Jew. 12. Ego and language. 13. The world as solitary vice. 14. The mystical. 15. The central proposition of the Tractatus: world without culture. 16. Wittgenstein mark 2. 17. Tertium non datur. 18. Joint escape. 19. Janik and Toulmin: a critique. 20. The case of the disappearing self. 21. Pariah communalism. 22. Iron cage Kafka style pt. III. Malinowski. 23. The birth of modern social anthropology. 24. The Malinowskian revolution. 25. How did Malinowski get there? 26. Whither anthropology? Or: whither Bronislaw? 27. The difference between Cracow and Vienna. 28. Malinowski's achievement and politics. 29. Malinowski's theory of language. 30. Malinowski's later mistake. 31. The (un)originality of Malinowski and Wittgenstein pt. IV. Influences. 32. The impact and diffusion of Wittgenstein's ideas. 33. The first wave of Wittgenstein's influence. 34. A belated convergence of philosophy and anthropology pt. V. Conclusions. 35. The truth of the matter. 36. Our present condition. Bibliographies of Ernest Gellner's writings on Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and nationalism.
Responsibility: Ernest Gellner.
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