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A Companion to Wittgenstein on EducationWittgenstein, Education and Contemporary American Philosophy

A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Wittgenstein, Education and Contemporary American... [Stanley CavellCavell, Stanley and Cora DiamondDiamond, Cora are two contemporary American philosophers deeply influenced by the work of the early and the late WittgensteinWittgenstein. Cavell and Diamond read Wittgenstein, particularly, as a romantic thinker open to the disappointments and the difficulties of our lives in language. For CavellCavell, Stanley, the Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Investigationsis remarkable for its call to meaningful and responsible expressionExpression; in recognising the fragility and disappointment of everyday expression, WittgensteinWittgenstein in fact calls his reader to linguistic and bodily responsiveness. For DiamondDiamond, Cora, both the Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusTractatus Logico-Philosophicus, or Tractatus and the Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Investigations recommend a distinctively “realistic spirit”, one where we are aware of our finitudeFinitude, aware of our fleshiness, aware always that we inhabit a body and that we are never immune from pain. It is the purpose of this chapter to explore further these romantic interpretationsInterpretation of WittgensteinWittgenstein and to consider particularly their important educationalEducation implications.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Companion to Wittgenstein on EducationWittgenstein, Education and Contemporary American Philosophy

Editors: Peters, Michael A.; Stickney, Jeff
Mahon, Áine
A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education — May 4, 2017
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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
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978-981-10-3134-2
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231 –240
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10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_15
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[Stanley CavellCavell, Stanley and Cora DiamondDiamond, Cora are two contemporary American philosophers deeply influenced by the work of the early and the late WittgensteinWittgenstein. Cavell and Diamond read Wittgenstein, particularly, as a romantic thinker open to the disappointments and the difficulties of our lives in language. For CavellCavell, Stanley, the Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Investigationsis remarkable for its call to meaningful and responsible expressionExpression; in recognising the fragility and disappointment of everyday expression, WittgensteinWittgenstein in fact calls his reader to linguistic and bodily responsiveness. For DiamondDiamond, Cora, both the Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusTractatus Logico-Philosophicus, or Tractatus and the Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Investigations recommend a distinctively “realistic spirit”, one where we are aware of our finitudeFinitude, aware of our fleshiness, aware always that we inhabit a body and that we are never immune from pain. It is the purpose of this chapter to explore further these romantic interpretationsInterpretation of WittgensteinWittgenstein and to consider particularly their important educationalEducation implications.]

Published: May 4, 2017

Keywords: Education; Wittgenstein; Stanley Cavell; Cora Diamond; Richard Rorty

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