In Search of the Human Voice
1st ed. 2015. 2015. x, 179 S. 216 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER PALGRAVE MACMILLAN; PALGRAVE MACMILLAN UK 2015
ISBN: 1-349-49464-X (134949464X)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-349-49464-4 (9781349494644)
What could Wittgenstein´s work contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life´s meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein´s scattered remarks about value and ´sense of life´ but also argues that his philosophy and ´way of seeing´ has far reaching implications for the ways theorists approach an ancient question: ´How shall one live?´.Introduction 1. Book of Facts, Book of Values 2. The Limits of Justification 3. Aspect-Seeing and Meaning in Life 4. In Defence of the Ordinary 5. On Detachment or Why the Shopkeeper Does Not Investigate His Apples 6. The Human Voice: The Confessional Nature of Enquiring into Life´s Meaning Coda Notes Bibliography Index Reza Hosseini is a sessional lecturer and a Research Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa.