Format:
Online-Ressource (347 p)
ISBN:
9780415154383
Content:
In this highly original work Holt skillfully teases out the implications Wittgenstein's ideas on language may have for the politics of human rights and political theory today
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; CONTRACTING AND HUMAN RIGHTS; BARRIERS TO BARGAINING; CONFESSION, NOT BARGAINING; 1 Private language…; CONCEPTS AS PICTURES; CONCEPTS AS DEEDS; CONCEPTS AS PRIVATE; CONCEPTS AS UNIVERSALS; 2 …public rules; RULES AND CRITERIA; RULES AND FORMS OF LIFE; RULES AND CERTAINTY; RULES AND THE PRIMITIVE; 3 Linguistic selves; THE LINGUISTIC SELF AS PUPIL OF RULES AND MYTH; THE LINGUISTIC SELF, IMAGINATION AND WILL; THE SELF AND MACHINES; THE SELF AND MYTHS; THE SELF AND TRUTH; THE SELF AND CORE BEING; 4 Liberal and pragmatic forms; LIBERAL MYTH
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LIBERALISM AND RAWLSPRAGMATIC LIBERALS; PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES; 5 Irony and the art of living; PRAGMATIC TRUTH; PRAGMATIC ELITISM; PRAGMATISM AND SCHISM; PRAGMATISM AND MADNESS; 6 Human rights and rules of civility; BASIC FACTS OF NATURE AND CRITERIA; FACT AND VALUE; CRITERIA AND POSTULATES; RATIONAL POLITICS; CIVIL ASSOCIATION; THE CONVERSATION AND THE GRAMMATICAL; BASIC FACTS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MORAL CONDITIONS; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203007730
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415154383
Additional Edition:
Print version Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights
Language:
English
Keywords:
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