1st Edition

Wittgenstein and Other Minds Rethinking Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity with Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Husserl

By Soren Overgaard Copyright 2007
    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    A compelling new approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. No other book addresses as thoroughly the parallels between Wittgenstein and leading Continental philosophers such as Levinas, Husserl, and Heidegger.

    Introduction  1. Exposing the Conjuring Trick  2. Being Involved with the World  3. Being Some Body  4. Externalism, Realism, and Wittgenstein  5. The Opposite of Solipsism  6. The Transcendence of the Other  7. Other Minds and Expression  8. Expression and Ethics.  Notes.  Bibliography

    Biography

    Søren Overgaard is Research Councils UK Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull. He is the author of Husserl and Heidegger on Being in the World (2004).