Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer

✍ Scribed by Lars Albinus (editor), Josef G. F. Rothhaupt (editor), Aidan Seery (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 438
• Series: On Wittgenstein; 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of scholars within philosophy and the study of religion. For the first time, specialized investigations of the philological and philosophical aspects Wittgenstein's manuscripts are combined with the outlook of philosophical anthropology and ritual studies.In the first section of the book Wittgenstein's remarks are presented and discussed in light of his Nachlass and relevant lecture-notes by G.E. Moore, reproduced in this book as facsimiles. The second section deals with the cultural and philosophical background of the early remarks, while the third section focuses specifically on the general problem of understanding as being a main issue of these remarks. The fourth section concentrates on the philosophical development characteristic of the later remarks. Finally, the fifth section reviews Wittgenstein's opposition to Frazer, and the ramifications of his remarks, in light of ritual studies.The book is intended for scholars in philosophy and religious studies, as well as for the general reader with an academic interest in philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction • Lars Albinus
Presentation of the Text and the Matter
Wittgensteins „Bemerkungen über Frazers Golden Bough“. Verortung im Gesamtnachlass – Einbindung in die Philosophietradition – Editions- und Publikationsgeschichte • Josef G. F. Rothhaupt
Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933, From the Notes of G. E. Moore. Excerpt: Lecture 3b, May 5, 1933 and Lecture 4a, May 9, 1933 • David Stern, Brian Rogers, Gabriel Citron (Eds.)
Early Remarks (Background)
The Determinacy of Sense and Meaning. Some Notes on Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Considerations” (MS 110: 214) from the Early 1930s for the Background of His Philosophical Investigations • Wilhelm Krüger
The Faces of ‘Necessity’, Perspicuous Representation, and the Irreligious “Cult of the Useful”. The Spenglerian Background to the First Set of Remarks on Frazer • Mauro L. Engelmann
A Conception of Modern Life as “the Awakening of the Human Spirit, Revisited”. Wittgenstein’s Early Remarks on Frazer as a Philosophy of Culture • Steen Brock
Early Remarks (The Problem of Understanding)
It’s a Kind of Magic. Wittgenstein on Understanding and Weltanschauung in the Remarks on Frazer • Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Wittgenstein, Frazer, and Temperament • James C. Klagge
Explanation and Impression • Lars Madsen
Philosophy, Metaphysics and Religion. The “Remarks on Frazer” as Introduction to Wittgenstein’s “Second” Book • Andreas Koritensky
The Later Remarks
Thirteen Loose Sheets of Varying Size. On Part II of Bemerkungen über Frazer’s “The Golden Bough” • Peter K. Westergaard
„That they point, is all there is to it.“ Wittgenstein, Frazer, eine „Tatsachensammlung“ und ihre „übersichtliche Darstellung“ • Marco Brusotti
Wittgenstein, Frazer, and the Apples of Sodom • Lars Albinus
Ramifications of the Remarks
Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer. An Emotional Philosophical Puppet • Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Wittgenstein’s Critique of Frazer and Realism/Anti-realism Concerning Religion • Caroline Schaffalitzky de Muckadell
Biographical Notes
Index