1st Edition

The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

By James Atkinson Copyright 2009
    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics such as, God, the meaning of life, reality, the eternal and the solipsistic self.

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: Self-subsistence and Method

    Chapter 2: What cannot be put into Words, Method and Mysticism

    Chapter 3: Language, Method and Mysticism

    Chapter 4: Showing and Wittgenstein’s Two Objections to Russell’s

    Theory of Types

    Chapter 5: Two Senses of Showing

    Chapter 6: The Mystical and Showing

    Chapter 7: Time and The Mystical

    Chapter 8: Mysticism and the Problems of Philosophy

    Chapter 9: Nonsense and Two Interpretations of the Tractatus

    Chapter 10: Metaphysics and the Mystical

    Chapter 11: The Mystical and the Meaning of Life

    Conclusion: Silence

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    James R. Atkinson