dc.contributor.author | Tejedor Palau, Maria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-10T14:56:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-10T14:56:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-10-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Tejedor Palau , M 2015 , ' Tractarian Form as the Precursor to Forms of Life ' , Nordic Wittgenstein Review , vol. October 2015 , no. 2242-248X , pp. 83–109 . | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2194-6825 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/18856 | |
dc.description | Nordic Wittgenstein Review is an Open Access journal. The individual contributions are made available Open Access under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) | |
dc.description.abstract | Interpreters are divided on the question of whether the phrase ‘form of life’ is used univocally in Wittgenstein’s later writings. Some univocal interpreters suggest that, for Wittgenstein, ‘form of life’ captures a uniquely biological notion: the biologically human form of life. Others suggest that it captures a cultural notion: the notion of differently enculturated forms of human life. Non-univocal interpreters, in contrast, argue that Wittgenstein does not use ‘form of life’ univocally, but that he uses it sometimes to highlight a cluster of biological notions and sometimes a cluster of cultural ones. The debate between univocal and non-univocal readers has generated a raft of intricate, illuminating literature on both sides. If it remains to an extent open, it is partly as a result of the fact that the textual evidence available on this matter, in Wittgenstein’s later published and unpublished writings, is so limited. In this paper, I argue that considering Wittgenstein’s earlier treatment of ‘form’ can help to shed light on his later treatment of ‘form of life’. More specifically I argue that revisiting the Tractatus’ treatment of ‘form’ gives us – perhaps surprisingly – reasons to support a non-univocal later reading of ‘forms of life’. | en |
dc.format.extent | 1100392 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nordic Wittgenstein Review | |
dc.subject | Wittgenstein | |
dc.subject | Tractatus Logico-Phiosophicus | |
dc.subject | Form | |
dc.subject | Forms of Life | |
dc.subject | Philosophy | |
dc.title | Tractarian Form as the Precursor to Forms of Life | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Philosophy | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3358 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |