Wittgenstein and Nietzsche (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Shunichi Takagi (editor), Pascal F. Zambito (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives. While some chapters focus on the philological and biographical connections of Wittgenstein’s reading of Nietzsche, others reflect on the ideas that are implicitly shared by the two thinkers.

For Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, philosophy is inextricably connected to ethics and the arts and therefore takes a peculiar method that differs from the sciences. Nevertheless, their thinking strives for knowledge and truth by means of discursive text forms, however unconventional they may be. The first group of chapters contextualize explicit references to Nietzsche in Wittgenstein’s writings and clarify their philosophical function. In Part II, the contributors take a philosophical problem as their starting point and show how it can be illuminated by comparing or contrasting Wittgensteinian and Nietzschean arguments and methods. Together the chapters trace Nietzsche’s influence on Wittgenstein’s thought concerning the critique of language, ethics, aesthetics, religion, and philosophical method.

Wittgenstein and Nietzsche will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the history of philosophy and intellectual history.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Works by Wittgenstein and Derivative Texts
Works by Nietzsche
Other abbreviated works
Introduction: Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Introduction
Cultural Background
Explicit References to Nietzsche in Wittgenstein’s Writings and Conversations
Similarities in Topics and Methods
Existing Debate
Essays in this Volume
Notes
Sources
Part I: Influence: Wittgenstein reads Nietzsche
Chapter 1: Wittgenstein Reads Nietzsche: The Roots of Tractarian Solipsism
Introduction
I
II
III
IV
V
Afterword (2022)
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Schlick, Wittgenstein, and Waismann: Three Responses to Nietzsche
1 Introduction
2 Nietzsche’s influence on Schlick’s ethics
(a) Schlick’s Nietzschean naturalism
(b) Work and play
(c) ‘Will to power’ vs. ‘will to pleasure’
(d) A genealogy of absolute values
3 Wittgenstein and Schlick on Nietzsche: A comparison
4 Wittgenstein against Schlick’s ethics
5 Waismann between Schlick and Wittgenstein
6 Waismann contra Nietzsche
7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Philosophy as Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Paul Ernst
1 Wittgenstein’s Reception of Nietzsche and Its Context
2 ‘Philosophy’ in the Big Typescript
3 Traces of Nietzsche in the Big Typescript and the Nietzsche Interpretation by Paul Ernst
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Transvaluation and Rectification: Wittgenstein reads Nietzsche and Lichtenberg on Values, Poetry, and Language
1 Wittgenstein, Spengler, and Nietzsche’s “transvaluation of all values”
2 Wittgenstein’s new movement of thought as transvaluation
3 Philosophers who want to be learned by heart. Nietzsche’s and Wittgenstein’s “poems”
4 The Autonomy of Grammar
5 Great sayings: Poetry and truth
6 “Our entire philosophy is correction of the use of language”. Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Lichtenberg
7 Beyond Good and Evil on “it thinks”: making do without this little “it”?
8 Wittgenstein: “‘It thinks’. Is this sentence true + ‘I think’ false?”
9 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: ‘jenseits der Grenze’: Wittgenstein and Nietzsche on Value and Nonsense
1 Movements of Thought
2 Nietzsche on Philosophy and the Limits of Language
3 Value and Nonsense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
4 Philosophy at the Limits of Language
Notes
References
Chapter 6: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Future Philosophers: The Notion of Truth in Philosophy
1 Philosophy, Truth and Philosophical Theses
2 Wittgenstein on Nietzsche, Philosophy, and Truth
3 Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals as Philosophical Poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Dialogues: Philosophical Intersections between Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Chapter 7: Philosophical Style: Between Philosophy, Poetry, and Aphoristic Writing
1 Style as Critique
2 Improving One’s Style
3 Poetic and Aphoristic Writing
Notes
References
Chapter 8: Wittgenstein and Nietzsche on Language and Knowledge
1 On the Prejudices of Philosophers
2 Family Resemblances
3 The Herd Perspective as a Form of Life
4 Pragmatist Humanism
Notes
References
Chapter 9: A Nietzschean Critique of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Quietism
Introduction
1 A Shared Linguistic Critique: Reified Grammar
2 Diverging Diagnoses: Too Much Common Sense and Too Little
3 The Physics of Physical Objects
4 Contrasting Metaphilosophies: Philosophical Legislation and Philosophical Quietism
Conclusion
Notes
Sources
Chapter 10: Overcoming Chagrin in Cavell and Nietzsche
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2
3
4
5
6
7
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 11: A Remark on “the Particular Peace” in Philosophy in Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Don’t stop thinking!
The great liberation
All things closest to me
Back to the everyday use
Out of the fly-bottle
Notes
References
Index