Between Wittgenstein and Weil (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Jack Manzi (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa.

The chapters cover different aspects of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy, including their religious thought and their views on ethics and metaphilosophy. They address the following questions: How does Wittgenstein’s struggle with religious belief match up with Simone Weil’s own struggle with organised belief? What is the role of the mystical and supernatural in their works? How much impact has various posthumous editorial decisions had on the shaping of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s thought? Is there any significance to similarities in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s written and philosophical styles? How do Weil and Wittgenstein conceive of the ‘self’ and its role in philosophical thinking? What role does belief play in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s respective philosophical works?

Between Wittgenstein and Weil will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in twentieth-century philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and the history of moral philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, and Religious Belief
2 To Speak of the Divine: Weil and Wittgenstein on Religious Grammar
3 Learning to Look: On Mysticism and Mysticisms
4 Will the Void: Wittgenstein and Weil on the Ethics of Attention
5 Struggling with the Supernatural
6 Weil Meets Wittgenstein
7 Writing (Out) the Self: Wittgenstein and Weil on Diaristic Writing
8 Affliction: Pain and the Problems of Modernity
9 Wittgenstein and Weil on Manufacturing Good
Index