Wittgenstein and Justice

Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.

About the author

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli (California, 1987).

Summary

Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.

Product details

• Authors: Hanna F. Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, Pitkin Hanna Fenichel
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.1993
• EAN: 9780520023291
• ISBN: 978-0-520-02329-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy