Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity

by B.R. Tilghman

Overview

The author's purpose in this volume is to present the relevance of the ideas of Wittgenstein to those interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He focuses on both the earlier work centred around the "Tractatus" and the later work of the "Philosophical Investigations".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333531877
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/28/1990
Series:	Swansea Studies in Philosophy
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Modernism, modern aesthetics and Wittgenstein; art and ethics - an historical sketch; ethics and aesthetics in the "Tractatus"; the "Tractatus" re-examined; discerning humanity; discerning art; discerning the humanity in art.