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The book is open-minded evaluation of Wittgenstein`s philosophy of language from fresh perspectives to bring out its contemporary significance. Including papers presented by noted Indian philosophers at a naional seminar, it examines the special place of WIttgenstein in the development of philosophy in the West in the twentieth century.
The papers offer an in-depth critique of Wittgenstein`s theories on the limits and structure of language, operationalism, in philosophy of language, idea of a private language, necessaity of mathematics and logical truths, grammer of the language of emotions and language as a liberating force. Throughout the attempt is to analyse Wittgenstein`s contributors vis-a-vis Indian philosophical thinking and trace and the similarities between him and Indian thinkers. The work, for instance, includes a detailed study of Wittgenstein`s notion of silence and its affiliations with silence as interpreted in the Nyaya system and identifying the common factors in Gandhi and Wittgenstein`s approach to western civilisation. It also presents a radically different understanding -- from what is traditionally understood of the Wittgensteinian concept of picture.
The work will prove immensely useful to scholars concerned with linguistic representation and meaning in general and Wittgenstein`s contributors to philosophy of language in particular.
ISBN : 9788186921159
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Pages : 213
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