Wittgenstein and Plato

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Wittgenstein’s Debt to Plato

   • Joachim Schulte

   Pages 1-24

3. Wittgenstein Reads Plato

   • Wolfgang Kienzler

   Pages 25-47

4. ‘The Socratic Method!’: Wittgenstein and Plato

   • Luigi Perissinotto

   Pages 48-71

5. The Scales and the Compass of Philosophy: Wittgenstein in the Mirror of Plato

   • Cecilia Rofena

   Pages 72-99

6. Knowing Where to Turn: Analogy, Method and Literary Form in Plato and Wittgenstein

   • M. W. Rowe

   Pages 100-125

7. Writing and Communicating Philosophy: Consonances between Plato and Wittgenstein

   • Silvana Borutti, Fulvia de Luise

   Pages 126-159

8. The World Seen Sub Specie Aeternitatis: Wittgenstein’s Platonism

   • Begoña Ramón Cámara

   Pages 160-182

9. Plato, Wittgenstein and the Origins of Language

   • Antoni Defez

   Pages 183-195

10. Plato, Wittgenstein and the Definition of Games

    • Catherine Rowett

    Pages 196-219

11. Wittgenstein, Plato and the ‘Craving for Generality’

    • Franco Trabattoni

    Pages 220-248

12. On Philosophy’s (Lack of) Progress: From Plato to Wittgenstein (and Rawls)

    • Rupert Read

    Pages 249-280

13. How Wittgenstein Refused to Be ‘The Son Of’

    • Antonia Soulez

    Pages 281-297

14. Radical Enlightenment Optimism: Socrates and Wittgenstein

    • Thomas Wallgren

    Pages 298-330

15. Back Matter

    Pages 331-335

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Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.

• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• philosophy
• Plato
• Platon
• Socrates

• Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

  Luigi Perissinotto

• University of Valencia, Spain

  Begoña Ramón Cámara

Silvana Borutti, University of Pavia, Italy Antoni Defez i Martín, University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain Fulvia de Luise, University of Trento, Italy Wolfgang Kienzler, University of Jena, Germany Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, UK Cecilia Rofena, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy M.W. Rowe, University of East Anglia,UK Catherine Rowett, University of East Anglia, UK Joachim Schulte, University of Zürich, Switzerland Antonia Soulez, University of Paris 8-St Denis/Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France Franco Trabattoni, University of Milan, Italy Thomas Wallgren, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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