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By taking into account the manuscripts that span from the Big Typescript up to the Brown Book, this book gives an introduction to the respective thoughts contained in the whole of the Wittgenstein Nachlass. A detailed interpretation shows constructive arguments behind Wittgenstein´s seemingly aphoristic and merely destructive style of writing. In this way, the author wants to refute the wide-spread view that Wittgenstein does not provide generally valid arguments let alone a sort of "theory of his own". The book develops an elaborated use theory of meaning which explains in some depth why and how the meaning of words and sentences in a natural language is its use according to the rules of language.
The PDF file of the text available from this site contains bookmarks for all chapters and sections and a table of contents with links. The book was published 2004 in the Tenea-Verlag, Berlin.
Thomas Weiss worked as a research assistant with a project on Wittgenstein´s Nachlass at the University of Bielefeld. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Bielefeld and Karlsruhe. He published papers on the analytical philosophy of mind, on the philosophy of language, and on Wittgenstein, incl. an article on Part II of the Philosophical Investigations, entitled "Meinen, ein Erlebnis der besonderen Art", in Wittgenstein über die Seele, ed. Eike von Savigny and Oliver R. Scholz, Suhrkamp 1995.
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Thomas Weiss: Die Gebrauchstheorie der Bedeutung im Big Typescript – eine neue Perspektive auf Wittgenstein
Thomas Weiss defends the thesis that the late Wittgenstein is a constructive, analytical theory-builder rather than a therapeutic deconstructivist. The book reconstructs Wittgenstein’s theory of meaning from the Big Typescript, which, it is widely held, is the central writing from Wittgenstein's Nachlass. The reader is presented the first comprehensive interpretation of the Big Typescript which focuses on Wittgenstein´s philosophy of language.By taking into account the manuscripts that span from the Big Typescript up to the Brown Book, this book gives an introduction to the respective thoughts contained in the whole of the Wittgenstein Nachlass. A detailed interpretation shows constructive arguments behind Wittgenstein´s seemingly aphoristic and merely destructive style of writing. In this way, the author wants to refute the wide-spread view that Wittgenstein does not provide generally valid arguments let alone a sort of "theory of his own". The book develops an elaborated use theory of meaning which explains in some depth why and how the meaning of words and sentences in a natural language is its use according to the rules of language.
The PDF file of the text available from this site contains bookmarks for all chapters and sections and a table of contents with links. The book was published 2004 in the Tenea-Verlag, Berlin.
Thomas Weiss worked as a research assistant with a project on Wittgenstein´s Nachlass at the University of Bielefeld. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Bielefeld and Karlsruhe. He published papers on the analytical philosophy of mind, on the philosophy of language, and on Wittgenstein, incl. an article on Part II of the Philosophical Investigations, entitled "Meinen, ein Erlebnis der besonderen Art", in Wittgenstein über die Seele, ed. Eike von Savigny and Oliver R. Scholz, Suhrkamp 1995.
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