TY - JOUR
T1 - Wittgenstein's philosophical conversations with Rush Rhees (1939-50)
T2 - From the notes of Rush Rhees
AU - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
AU - Rhees, Rush
AU - Citron, Gabriel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Swansea University and Citron 2015.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Between 1937 and 1951 Wittgenstein had numerous philosophical conversations with his student and close friend, Rush Rhees. This article is composed of Rhees's notes of twenty such conversations-namely, all those which have not yet been published-as well as some supplements from Rhees's correspondence and miscellaneous notes. The principal value of the notes collected here is that they fill some interesting and important gaps in Wittgenstein's corpus. Thus, firstly, the notes touch on a wide range of subjects, a number of which are only briefly addressed by Wittgenstein elsewhere, if at all. The subjects discussed include: explanation, ethics, anarchism, contradiction, psychoanalysis, colour, religion, concepts, classification, seeing-as, evolution, the relation between science and philosophy, and free will, amongst others. Secondly, the notes contain references to, and brief remarks about, philosophers of whom Wittgenstein otherwise says very little, if anything-such as Brentano, Heidegger, Aquinas, and Marx, amongst others. And thirdly, the notes provide us with valuable examples of Wittgenstein's use of some key 'Wittgensteinian' terms of art which are surprisingly rare in his written works, such as 'surface-' and 'depth-grammar', and 'centres of variation'.
AB - Between 1937 and 1951 Wittgenstein had numerous philosophical conversations with his student and close friend, Rush Rhees. This article is composed of Rhees's notes of twenty such conversations-namely, all those which have not yet been published-as well as some supplements from Rhees's correspondence and miscellaneous notes. The principal value of the notes collected here is that they fill some interesting and important gaps in Wittgenstein's corpus. Thus, firstly, the notes touch on a wide range of subjects, a number of which are only briefly addressed by Wittgenstein elsewhere, if at all. The subjects discussed include: explanation, ethics, anarchism, contradiction, psychoanalysis, colour, religion, concepts, classification, seeing-as, evolution, the relation between science and philosophy, and free will, amongst others. Secondly, the notes contain references to, and brief remarks about, philosophers of whom Wittgenstein otherwise says very little, if anything-such as Brentano, Heidegger, Aquinas, and Marx, amongst others. And thirdly, the notes provide us with valuable examples of Wittgenstein's use of some key 'Wittgensteinian' terms of art which are surprisingly rare in his written works, such as 'surface-' and 'depth-grammar', and 'centres of variation'.
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U2 - 10.1093/mind/fzu200
DO - 10.1093/mind/fzu200
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84938942875
SN - 0026-4423
VL - 124
SP - 1
EP - 71
JO - Mind
JF - Mind
IS - 493
ER -