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Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings inspired contemporary philosophical thinking and advanced many issues that had been addressed by traditional philosophy. The questions raised by the Viennese philosopher initiated debates on a reconsideration of philosophical terminology. This is especially true for a term that has generated at least three significant controversies since its creation and will probably generate more disputes in the following years. It is the expression "form(s) of life" which translates into German as "Lebensform(en)" and "Form des Lebens". The present volume contains contributions on forms of life, language games and the influence of Wittgenstein's philosophy on other scholears.
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Jesús Padilla Gálvez is a Spanish philosopher. His principal expertise is in philosophy of language. He is known for his exegesis of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Studied Philosophy, History and Mathematics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and was awarded the M.A. in 1983 and a Dr. phil. in Philosophy in 1988. He was Research Assistant at the University of Murcia (Spain) and later held the post of Associate Professor for Logic and Philosophy of Language at the University of León (Spain). From 1994-99 he was Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria). Since 1999 he has been Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain).
Mag. Margit Gaffal, geb. in Linz (Österreich), studierte Anglistik und Philosophie, Pädagogik und Psychologie an der Paris Lodron Universitát Salzburg (Osterreich). Sie war Lektorin für Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Cardiff University, School of European Studies in Wales (Großbritannien) und an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz in Österreich. Sie unterrichtete an einer Handelsakademie sowie an einer Internationalen Schule. Ihre Forschungsinteressen sind: Zweitspracherwerb und mehrsprachiger Wissenserwerb, Fachsprache Recht und Wirtschaft, Probleme der Übersetzbarkeit von Fachtermini, interkulturelle Linguistik und soziale Kompetenz.
