The Grammar of Politics : : Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy / / ed. by Cressida Heyes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cerbone, David R.,; Eldridge, Richard,; Elliott, Carl,; Havercroft, Jonathan,; Heyes, Cressida J.,; Janik, Allan,; Lee, Wendy Lynne,; McManus, Denis,; Owen, David,; Shusterman, Richard,; Tully, James,; Zerilli, Linda M.G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Heyes, Cressida,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein's work has been widely interpreted and appropriated by subsequent philosophers, as well as by scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, law, and medicine. The Grammar of Politics demonstrates the variety of ways political p...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I. Wittgenstein and Method
• 1. Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: Understanding Practices of Critical Reflection
• 2. The Limits of Conservatism: Wittgenstein on "Our Life" and "Our Concepts"
• 3. Wittgenstein, Fetishism, and Nonsense in Practice
• 4. Genealogy as Perspicuous Representation
• Part II. A Wittgensteinian Politics
• 5. Notes on the Natural History of Politics
• 6. Wittgenstein and the Conversation of Justice
• 7. Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary
• 8. On Seeing liberty As
• Part III. Wittgenstein Applied
• 9. "But One Day Man Opens His Seeing Eye": The Politics of Anthropomorphizing Language
• 10. Does Your Patient Have a Beetle in His Box?: Language-Games and the Spread of Psychopathology
• 11. Wittgenstein on Bodily Feelings: Explanation and Melioration in Philosophy of Mind, Art, and Politics
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• Index