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This book of essays brings together the author’s most recent reflections on Wittgenstein’s philosophy as well as some earlier essays that seem worth preserving for historical reasons, as they involve information about personal relationships otherwise not easily retrievable by future chroniclers. It is the concluding complement of the author’s previous two volumes of essays: Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies (2001) and Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context (2013), which together form a trilogy of collected papers that represent his decades-long endeavor to understand and give adequate description and defense of the thought of the first philosopher of his age.
This collection of essays exhibits its author's characteristic combination of archival mastery, analytic clarity, argumentative rigour and passionate concern for the future of philosophy as part of Western culture's life of the mind. Whether or not they prove to be his final reflections on their primary subject, they make it abundantly clear why Professor Hacker's long lifetime of work still plays such a central role in our continuing attempts to take the full measure of Wittgenstein's genius.” —Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy at New College, University of Oxford, England.
Peter Hacker is an outstanding Wittgenstein scholar and champion of Wittgensteinian philosophy. This collection is a fitting conclusion of his work in these areas, with topics ranging from exegetical controversies through philosophical methodology to neuroscience. It also affords a fascinating insight into an important strand within post-war analytic philosophy by someone who is one of the tradition’s pre-eminent historians. In addition to bringing together very valuable contributions over the last 20 years, it features a couple of highly interesting and provocative new essays. —Professor Dr. Hans-Johann Glock, Department of Philosophy, University
of Zürich, and National Centre of Competence in Research–Evolving Language, Switzerland.
With his thorough knowledge of Wittgenstein’s texts and thought, and in his typical lucid style, Hacker provides analyses of specific passages as well as wide views on Wittgenstein’s philosophy. To these are added engagements with other prominent Wittgenstein scholars and concluding sober reflections on our tortured civilization.” —Professor Hanoch Ben-Yami, Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Austria.
“This book contains many excellent and original essays on Wittgenstein, written by one of the best living philosophers. In an age in which (analytic) philosophy has lost its compass, has become a scholastic discipline, subscribes to a scientistic ideology and produces highly technical work of little relevance or just sheer nonsense, this book is a much-needed corrective and a must-read.” —Dr. Edward Kanterian, Reader in Philosophy, University of Kent, NZ.
P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He has specialized in philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and written a tetralogy on human nature.