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A.C. Grayling on Wittgenstein

May 8, 2012 by Dylan Casey 7 Comments

I've mentioned Oxford's Very Short Introductions before on the blog, but I can't help pointing out another written by A.C. Grayling on Wittgenstein. It's a great example of distilling something complicated down into digestible hunks in an honest presentation and analysis. Very well done. In addition, he's a fine essayist with a number of collections worth reading, such as Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age.Check it out.

-Dylan

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  1. Emil Lime says

    May 8, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    I’ve noticed that the distilled summary as a genre of writing is becoming more advanced across the board and split into many nutritious streams. Your “salon” is a major crossroads of this exciting development. Try out Clair Colebrook on Deleuze and also her history of the concept of Irony. I think she would inform your discussions of Plato’s character Socrates a good deal.

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    • Dylan Casey says

      May 8, 2012 at 8:44 pm

      Thanks, Emil. I’ll check her work out.

      -Dylan

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      • Emil Lime says

        May 8, 2012 at 8:51 pm

        btw, I’ve read the A.C. Grayling on Wittgenstein and it cleared up quite a few things I didn’t understand with regards to this complex man and his relationship to philosophy. I have yet to get used to your three voices, so I don’t yet know who is who when the discussion is going on. I look forward to getting caught up over the next year. I’ve come to philosophy through a circuitous route. Just getting my legs with it so to speak.

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      • dmf says

        May 9, 2012 at 7:40 am

        Claire is one of the best philosophers in the business tho as often happens in the politics of the academy she is not employed by a philo dept.
        you can hear her here:
        http://www.personal.psu.edu/cpl2/blogs/digitaldialogue/2011/04/digital-dialogue-47-narrative.html

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  2. Dennis Matthews says

    May 9, 2012 at 9:51 am

    Clicking on your link to Oxford’s Very Short Introductions, the first item on the list is Nothing: A Very Short Introduction. Clicking on the book image “click to look inside”, we come across this: This page intentionally left blank.
    Hmmm, it seems nothing is not nothing after all.

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  3. Brian Carless says

    May 11, 2012 at 8:47 am

    I give a thumbs up to the whole seiries. They are great introductions that leave you wanting more and show you where to get it. The print is sooo small though.

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    • Wayne Schroeder says

      January 23, 2014 at 2:27 am

      Try the audiobooks. These are invaluable introductions as summaries per se.

      Reply

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