Wittgenstein and Marx by Felice Cimatti, Christoph Demmerling... - 9788869773808

Name: Wittgenstein and Marx by Felice Cimatti, Christoph Demmerling... - 9788869773808
Brand: Mimesis International

Mimesis International

Wittgenstein and MarxLanguage, Mind and Society\nAuthor(s): Felice Cimatti, Christoph Demmerling, Pietro Garofalo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Mimesis International, Italy\nImprint: Mimesis International\nISBN-13: 9788869773808, 978-8869773808\nSynopsis\nThe volume tries to offer a comparison between two philosophers who belong to two different philosophical traditions and who have thus been rarely discussed together: Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Despite these thinkers many distinctions, the contributions to the current volume try to reconstruct not only how the second Wittgenstein was influenced by the Marxist tradition, but also and above all the theoretical affinities between the two philosophers. In this way, the book underlines the potential that Marxs political thought holds for philosophers of language as well as the social implications of Wittgensteins thought and the political potential of some of his central topics, such as his critique of the private language arg.