TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marek Dobrzeniecki
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2192-1857
SN  - 9783653064445
TI  - The Conflicts of Modernity in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s «Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus»
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06444-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049765
N2  - The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch. The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning. The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus and comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist. With this insight, he solves the tension between Tractarian theses that influenced neopositivism and its mystical part.
KW  - Transcendentalism, Ethical subjectivism, Logical atomism, Philosophy of Language
LA  - English
ER  -