Language and solitude
| Titel: | Language and solitude : Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg dilemma / Ernest Gellner |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 |
| Umfang: | XIX, 209 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0521630029 ; 0521639972 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Preface
- Foreword
- Part I
- The Habsburg Predicament
- 1
- Swing alone or swing together
- 2
- The rivals
- 3
- Genesis of the individualist vision
- 4
- The metaphysics of romanticism
- 5
- Romanticism and the basis of nationalism
- 6
- Individualism and holism in society
- 7
- Crisis in Kakania
- 8
- Pariah liberalism
- 9
- Recapitulation
- Part II
- Wittgenstein
- 10
- The loneliness of the long-distance empiricist
- 11
- The poem to solitude, or: confessions of a rranscendental ego who is also a Viennese Jew
- 12
- The ego and language
- 13
- The world as solitary vice
- 14
- The mystical
- 15
- The central proposition of the Tractatus: world without culture
- 16
- Wittgenstein mark 2
- 17
- Tertium non datur
- 18
- Joint escape
- 19
- Janik and Toulmin: a critique
- 20
- The case of the disappearing self
- 21
- Pariah communalism
- 22
- Iron cage Kafka style
- Part III
- Malinowski
- 23
- The birth of modern social anthropology
- 24
- The Malinowskian revolution
- 25
- How did Malinowski get there?
- 26
- Whither anthropology? or: wither Bronislaw Malinowski?
- 27
- The difference between Krakow and Vienna
- 28
- Malinowski's achievement and politics
- 29
- Malinowski's theory of language
- 30
- Malinowski's later mistake
- 31
- The (un)originality of Malinowski and Wittgenstein
- Part IV
- Influences
- 32
- The impact and diffusion of Wittgenstein's ideas
- 33
- The first wave of Wittgenstein's influence
- 34
- A belated convergence of philosophy and anthropology
- Part V
- Conclusions
- 35
- The truth of the matter
- 36
- Our present condition
- General bibliography
- I
- Jarvie, Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's writings on Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and nationalism
