Wittgenstein and Phenomenology

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Lists of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Phenomenology in Grammar: Explicitation-Verificationism, Arbitrariness, and the Vienna Circle; 2 Phenomenology, Logic, and Liberation From Grammar; 3 Husserl and Wittgenstein on Description and Normativity; 4 Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Notion of a Fundamental Question and the Possibility of a Genuinely Philosophical Logic; 5 Phenomenology, Language, and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian Grammatical Investigation; 6 Pain and Space: The Middle Wittgenstein, the Early Merleau-Ponty.;This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein's philosophy in its different phases, including his own so-called phenomenological phase, relates to the variety of phenomenological approaches developed in continental Europe. In so doing, the volume seeks to throw light on both sides of the comparison, and to clarify more broadly the relations between analytic and phenomenological philosophy. However, rather than treating the interpretation of either phenomenological philosophy or Wittgenstein as an already settled issue, several chapters in the volume examine and question received views regarding them, and develop alternatives to such views. Wittgenstein and Phenomenology will be of interest to scholars working in philosophical methodology and metaphilosophy, the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and logic, and ethics.