Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer / Frank Cioffi
1998, 1st Paperback Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #355187
ISBN: 0521626242
Physical description: x, 310 pages. Contents: Introduction: Wittgenstein on explanation and self-clarification -- 1. Information, contemplation and social life -- 2. Aesthetic explanation and aesthetic perplexity -- 3. Wittgenstein and the Fire-festivals -- 4. When do empirical methods by-pass 'the problems which trouble us'? -- 5. Explanation, self-clarification and solace -- 6. Wittgenstein on making homeopathic magic clear -- 7. Wittgenstein and obscurantism -- 8. Wittgenstein on Freud's 'abominable mess' -- 9. Congenital transcendentalism and 'the loneliness which is the truth about things' -- 10. Explanation and self-clarification in Frazer -- 11. Explanation and self-clarification in Freud -- 12. Conclusion: two cheers for the coroner's report.
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951. Frazer, Sir James George 1854-1941. Psychoanalysis.
Explanation Controversial literature.
Price: €120.00