Tradition and Individuality Essays
A volume of essays on the themes of tradition, oral communication versus literal communication, Wittgenstein, and computers. The later Wittgenstein is shown to be on the one hand a traditionalist, and on the other hand, along with Heidegger, a philosopher
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University
Editors:
DONALD DAVIDSON, University o/California, Berkeley GAB:ru::EL NUCHELMANS, University 0/ Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Pittsburgh
VOLUME 221
J. C. NYlRI Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
TRADITION AND
IND IVID U ALITY Essays
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nylrl. Janos Kristof. Tradition and individuality : essays / J.C. Nyiri. p. cm. -- (Synthese 11brary ; v. 221) Includes blbliographlcal references and index. ISBN 978-94-010-5176-7 ISBN 978-94-011-2660-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2660-1
1. Tradltion (Philosophy) 2. Wlttgenstein. Ludwlg. 1889-1951. 3. Knowledge. Theory of. 4. Language and languages--Phl1osophy. 1. Title. II. Serles. B105.T7N95 1992 148--dc20 91-39683
ISBN 978-94-010-5176-7
printed on acid-free paper
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ix
CHAPTER 1: Wittgenstein's New Traditionalism
1
CHAPTER 2: Wittgenstein 1929-31: Conservatism and Jewishness
9
CHAPTER 3: Collective Reason: Roots of a Sociological Theory of Knowledge
25
CHAPTER 4: Some Marxian Themes in the Age of Information
39
CHAPTER 5: Tradition and Practical Knowledge
47
CHAPTER 6: "Tradition" and Related Terms: A Semantic Survey
61
CHAPTER 7: Historical Consciousness in the Computer Age
75
CHAPTER 8: On Esperanto: Usage and Contrivance in Language
85
CHAPTER 9: Heidegger and Wittgenstein
93
CHAPTER 10: Writing and the Private Language Argument
105
NOTES
115
BIBLIOGRAPHY
159
INDEX
171
vii
PREFACE
During the last fifteen years I have experimented with two successive approaches to the problem of the social embeddedness of individual behaviour. The first approach was community-centred, traditionalist; the second more individualistic. The present volume contains essays from both phases: chapters one to six representing the earlier, chapters seven to ten the later approach. I have chosen to have those earlier essays published along with the later ones for two reasons. First, because my current arguments (for what they are worth) clearly presuppose the background of my former endeavours. Secondly, I still do not think that my earlier attempts were entirely misdirected. In fact the choice in favour of the one or the other position depends on the evaluation of a single cluster of arguments: those pertaining to the epistemological significance of writing. I have come to believe that it is the medium of writi
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