It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these two eccentric men begin to discover in each other a po...(展开全部)

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

【作者简介】 阿兰•雅尼克（Allan Janik，1941— ）生于美国马萨诸塞州奇科皮，先后毕业于圣安塞姆学院、维拉诺瓦大学和布兰迪斯大学。他曾在喇沙书院和韦尔斯利学院教授哲学和思想史，现为奥地利因斯布鲁克大学布伦纳档案研究委员会的一员。另著有《提示汇编：对维特根斯坦哲学概念起源的研究》（Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Concept of Philosophy）、《隐喻的运用和滥用》（The Use and Abuse of Metaphor）、《哲学的风格、政治和未来》（Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy）等。 ··· 斯蒂芬•图尔敏（Stephen Toulmin，1922—2009）英国哲学家...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿兰•雅尼克（Allan Janik，1941— ）生于美国马萨诸塞州奇科皮，先后毕业于圣安塞姆学院、维拉诺瓦大学和布兰迪斯大学。他曾在喇沙书院和韦尔斯利学院教授哲学和思想史，现为奥地利因斯布鲁克大学布伦纳档案研究委员会的一员。另著有《提示汇编：对维特根斯坦哲学概念起源的研究》（Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Concept of Philosophy）、《隐喻的运用和滥用》（The Use and Abuse of Metaphor）、《哲学的风格、政治和未来》（Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy）等。 ··· 斯蒂芬•图尔敏（Stephen Toulmin，1922—2009）英国哲学家...(展开全部)

Paul Horwich develops an interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later writings that differs in substantial respects from what can already be found in the literature. He argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy-and not (as assumed by most other commentators) his identification of the meaning of a word with its use-that lies at the foundation of...(展开全部)

Paul Horwich develops an interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later writings that differs in substantial respects from what can already be found in the literature. He argues that it is Wittgenstein's radically anti-theoretical metaphilosophy-and not (as assumed by most other commentators) his identification of the meaning of a word with its use-that lies at the foundation of...(展开全部)

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will f...(展开全部)

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the linguistic turn in modern philosophy and anatomizes the antiphilosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of Wittgenstein s thinking, Badiou refines his own definitions of the universal truths that govern his work. Bruno Bosteels s introduction argues that a continuing dialogue with Wittgenstein is inescap...(展开全部)