Wittgenstein
the senses of use
$68.79
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2025
Summary
The Senses of Use: A Wittgenstein for Ordinary Life
A holistic introduction to Wittgenstein’s philosophy that approaches him as a philosopher of ordinary life.
One of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most consequential claims was that the meaning of the word, its sense, is its use in language. This deceptively simple claim, the foundation of what became known as ordinary language philosophy, has animated thinkers across disciplinary bounds from metaphysics …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226824574 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0226824578 |
| Series: | The France Chicago Collection |
| Author: | Sandra Laugier, Daniela Ginsburg |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Sandra Laugier
Sandra Laugier is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her books in English include Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Daniela Ginsburg is a freelance translator. She cotranslated Knowledge of Life by Georges Canguilhem.
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