The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge (THE NEW SYNTHESE HISTORICAL LIBRARY formerly: The Synthese Historical Library Volume 48)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780792361503
Subjects: Anthropology; Social & political philosophy; Popular Culture - General; History Of Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Sociology; Sociology - General; General; Philosophy / General; Philosophy-General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Popular Culture - General; History & Surveys - General; History; Knowledge, Sociology of; Philosophy
First sentence: I want to argue that a good way to understand the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein is to see him as a conservative thinker or, better, that a good way to read the Philosophical Investigations is to see it as a document embodying the conservative thought style2.