2. The Limits of Conservatism: Wittgenstein on “Our Life” and “Our Concepts”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Wittgenstein and Method
7. 1. Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: Understanding Practices of Critical Reflection 17
8. 2. The Limits of Conservatism: Wittgenstein on “Our Life” and “Our Concepts” 43
9. 3. Wittgenstein, Fetishism, and Nonsense in Practice 63
10. 4. Genealogy as Perspicuous Representation 82
11. Part II. A Wittgensteinian Politics
12. 5. Notes on the Natural History of Politics 99
13. 6. Wittgenstein and the Conversation of Justice 117
14. 7. Doing without Knowing: Feminism’s Politics of the Ordinary 129
15. 8. On Seeing liberty As 149
16. Part III. Wittgenstein Applied
17. 9. “But One Day Man Opens His Seeing Eye”: The Politics of Anthropomorphizing Language 167
18. 10. Does Your Patient Have a Beetle in His Box?: Language-Games and the Spread of Psychopathology 186
19. 11. Wittgenstein on Bodily Feelings: Explanation and Melioration in Philosophy of Mind, Art, and Politics 202
20. Notes 221
21. Bibliography 247
22. About the Contributors 253
23. Index 257