Pursuit of an Authentic Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Everyday

by David Egan

Superficially, Wittgenstein and Heidegger seem worlds apart: they worked in different philosophical traditions, seemed mostly ignorant of one another's work, and Wittgenstein's terse aphorisms in plain language could not be farther stylistically from Heidegger's difficult prose. Nevertheless, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Heidegger's Being and Time share a number of striking parallels. In particular, this book shows that both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019883263X
• ISBN13: 9780198832638
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"