By Nigel Pleasants
This e-book makes use of the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a point of view from which to problem the very suggestion of serious social conception, represented preeminently by way of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Renouncing the hunt for an alternate Wittgensteinian conception of social and political existence, the writer indicates that Wittgenstein however has enormous value for serious concept and perform.
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