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In her introduction, Cressida J. Heyes notes that Wittgenstein himself was sceptical of political theory, and that his philosophy does not lead naturally or inexorably toward any particular political position. Instead, she says, his ideas motivate certain attitudes toward the "game of politics" that the essays in this volume share: some contributors argue that political theory should use Wittgensteinian methods, others apply Wittgenstein's philosophy of language to figures and debates in areas of political theory (such as post-Kantian genealogy or Habermas's foundationalism), and still others reveal the ways Wittgenstein's concepts inform political foci as diverse as anthropomorphism, defining social group membership, and the nature of liberty. "All the contributors," Heyes writes, "take their lead from Wittgenstein's attempts to break the hold of certain pictures that tacitly direct our language and thus our forms of life. Making these pictures visible as pictures reveals the hitherto concealed structure and the contingency of certain ways of thinking about politics."

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Full title: Grammar of Politics
• Subtitle: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy
• Author: Cressida Heyes
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780801440564
• ISBN: 9780801440564
• ID: 06272734
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. March 2003

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