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Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer / Frank Cioffi
by Cioffi, Frank
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780521626248
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 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.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd.
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- Title
- Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer / Frank Cioffi
- Author
- Cioffi, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0521626242
- ISBN 13
- 9780521626248
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1998
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