Wittgensteinian Realms of Religious Beliefs, Values and Metaphysics

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I – Religious Beliefs, Wittgensteinian Fideism, Religious Pluralism and Cultural Debates. 1. Attitudes towards the world and finding the soul: an interpretation of what being religious means for Wittgenstein/Bijoy H Boruah. 2. Wittgenstein on religion/K. Srinivas. 3. Wittgenstein on religious inexpressibility, continuity and change/Kantilal Das. 4. Wittgensteinian fideism: debate between Kai Nielsen and D. Z. Phillips on whether everything can be explained away?/K. C. Pandey. 5. Kant and Wittgenstein on religious beliefs: a comparative study/Tafajol Hossain. 6. Debate on religious pluralism: A Wittgensteinian perspective/Th. Shantilata Devi. 7. Intercultural debates and deep disagreements: A Wittgensteinian approach/Md. Shahidul Islam. 8. A Wittgensteinian response to new atheism/V. Prabhu and Chandana Deka. Part II: Absolute Value, Ethics, Aesthetics, Architecture. 9. Wittgenstein on absolute ethical value/P. R. Bhat. 10. Later Wittgenstein’s views on ethics: some reflections/Tarang Kapoor. 11. Are cultural values transcendental?/Laxminarayan Lenka. 12. The Convergence of ethics and aesthetics in Wittgenstein/Lalruatfela. 13. Philosophy in stone: architecture, form and authenticity in the philosophical trajectory of Ludwig Wittgenstein/John Clammer. 14. Suresh Chandra on Wittgenstein: a retrospect/R.C. Pradhan. Part III – Subjectivism, Solipsism, Metaphysics, and Hermeneutics. 15. A Rejection of subjectivity: Wittgenstein and Davidson/Richa Kapoor Mehra. 16. Revisiting solipsism: A Wittgensteinian way/Manoranjan Mallick. 17. Self and Solipsism in Early Wittgenstein: a critical exposition/Siddique Alam Beg. 18. Wittgensteinian hermeneutic theory of human action/D.N. Yadav. Index.

 

All that cannot be expressed in language, for early Wittgenstein, belong to the realm of Unsayable or Showable. Such a realm consists of religious beliefs, ethical values, aesthetics, metaphysics, solipsism, love, death among other aspects of life which language is incapable of depicting successfully. Later Wittgenstein did not insist on the inexpressibility of these realms as each of them has their own distinct form of life. In this background this anthology is an attempt to explore various facets of these aspects of Wittgensteinian philosophy through various elucidations and interpretations. It is classified into three sections, viz. ‘Religious Beliefs, Wittgensteinian Fideism, Religious Pluralism, and Cultural Debates’, ‘Absolute Value, Ethics, Aesthetics, Architecture’ and ‘Subjectivism, Solipsism, Metaphysics, and Hermeneutics’. It aims at bringing out the current development in the field as found in the debates and discussions on Wittgensteinian philosophy in the contemporary philosophical world. All that cannot be expressed in language, for early Wittgenstein, belong to the realm of Unsayable or Showable. Such a realm consists of religious beliefs, ethical values, aesthetics, metaphysics, solipsism, love, death among other aspects of life which language is incapable of depicting successfully. Later Wittgenstein did not insist on the inexpressibility of these realms as each of them has their own distinct form of life. In this background this anthology is an attempt to explore various facets of these aspects of Wittgensteinian philosophy through various elucidations and interpretations. It is classified into three sections, viz. ‘Religious Beliefs, Wittgensteinian Fideism, Religious Pluralism, and Cultural Debates’, ‘Absolute Value, Ethics, Aesthetics, Architecture’ and ‘Subjectivism, Solipsism, Metaphysics, and Hermeneutics’. It aims at bringing out the current development in the field as found in the debates and discussions on Wittgensteinian philosophy in the contemporary philosophical world.