Common Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism 7
4. Taking Language Games Seriously 13
5. Is there Certainty in our Form of Life? 25
6. Certainty and Forms of Life 41
7. ‘Hinge Propositions’ and Radical Skepticism 53
8. Animal Logic and Transcendental Arguments: On Certainty’s two Levels of Justification 63
9. Über Gewißheit: a Textbook for Psychologists? 75
10. Wittgenstein, Pretence and Uncertainty 91
11. Was Wittgenstein a Relativist? 109
12. Language Meets and Measures Reality 121
13. Beyond Relativism: Wittgenstein’s Method of Grammatical Enquiry in Philosophical Investigations §§198-202 129
14. Russian Matters for Wittgenstein 149
15. Common Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci 181
16. Demystifying Mysticism: Brouwer and Wittgenstein 203
17. Wittgenstein and the Future of the Mathematical Sciences 213
18. Abbreviations 225