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Title Marx and Wittgenstein : knowledge, morality and politics / edited by Gavin Kitching and Nigel Pleasants
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages)
Series Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 35
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 35.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Conventional wisdoms; Ernest Gellner's criticisms of Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy; Commonalities; Marx and Wittgenstein as natural historians; Marx and Wittgenstein: culture and practical reason; Commodity fetishism as a form of life: language and value in Wittgenstein and Marx; Marx, Wittgenstein and postmodernism; Wittgenstein and Sraffa; Sraffa's influence on Wittgenstein: a conjecture; A Marxist influence on Wittgenstein via Sraffa; Disjunctions; Wittgenstein, Winch and Marx
Summary This book develops and extends the unorthodox view that there are deeper philosophical commonalities between Marx and Wittgenstein than may at first be apparent
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
SUBJECT Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 fast
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 fast
Subject Philosophers -- Germany
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Form Electronic book
Author Kitching, G. N
Pleasants, Nigel, 1962-
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