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  • WITTGENSTEIN’S LIBERATORY PHILOSOPHY
    RUPERT READ
    In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein ‘school’, of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport. Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas i...

    $1,240.00

  • A FILM-PHILOSOPHY OF ECOLOGY AND ENLIGHTENMENT
    RUPERT READ
    Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films—one explored in greater detail and the...

    $1,280.00

  • THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE
    PHIL HUTCHINSON / RUPERT READ / WES SHARROCK
    The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns...

    $1,560.00

  • WITTGENSTEIN AMONG THE SCIENCES
    RUPERT READ / EDITED BY SIMON SUMMERS
    Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human b...

    $1,460.00

  • BEYOND THE TRACTATUS WARS
    RUPERT READ
    Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate about Wittgenstein and his philosophy, and this book draws together the latest thin...

    $1,380.00

  • THE NEW HUME DEBATE
    RUPERT READ
    For decades scholars thought they knew Hume's position on the existence of causes and objects he was a sceptic. However, this received view has been thrown into question by the `new' readings of Hume as a sceptical realist. For philosophers, students of philosophy and others interested in theories of causation and their history, The New Hume Debate is the first book to fully do...

    $1,340.00