Doubt, Ethics and Religion : : Wittgenstein and the Counter-Enlightenment / / ed. by Luigi Perissinotto, Vicente Sanfélix.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Alarcón, Joaquín Jareño,; Cabrera, Isabel,; Chover, Joan B. Llinares,; Cometti, Jean-Pierre,; Millet, Julián Marrades,; Perissinotto, Luigi,; Tejedor, Chon,; Vidarte, Vicente Sanfélix,
• HerausgeberIn: Perissinotto, Luigi,; Sanfélix, Vicente,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Aporia , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Doubt, Ethics and Religion: An Introduction --; Is Wittgenstein a Religious Thinker? --; To Get Rid of the Torments of the Mind. --; The Existence of God (According to Wittgenstein) --; Subject, World and Value --; The Ethical Dimension of the Tractatus --; The early Wittgenstein, Tolstoy’s Kurze Darlegung des Evangelium and Nietzsche’s Der Antichrist --; Wittgenstein’s Religious Character --; “...to begin at the beginning” The Grammar of Doubt in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110321883; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110331226; 9783110331219
• ISSN: 2197-862X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110321883
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Luigi Perissinotto, Vicente Sanfélix.

This book explores Wittgenstein's conception of ethics, religion and philosophy. It aims at providing us with the tools necessary for assessing to what extent the Austrian philosopher can be considered an anti-Enlightenment thinker. The articles collected in this volume explore the relationship between Wittgenstein's thought and that of several authors who were, in various ways, key to the counter-enlightenement, authors such as Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, James and Pierce. One of the central issues examined here is Wittgenstein's opposition to the Cartesian method of doubt – a cornerstone of the enlightened movement against prejudice and superstition.