Wittgenstein in Swansea
Philosophy and Legacy
Editor(s) Alan Sandry
Language: English
Genre(s): Philosophy
- May 2025 · 256 pages ·216x138mm
- · Paperback - 9781837722259
- · eBook - pdf - 9781837722266
- · eBook - epub - 9781837722273
About The Book
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 - Wittgenstein : The Swansea Years, 1942-1947 by Ray Monk
Chapter 2 - The Cultural Milieu of Swansea in the 1930s and 1940s by Jeff Towns
Chapter 3 - The Place of Swansea on the Road to Philosophical Investigations by Jonathan Smith
Chapter 4 - ‘It’s good to be away from Cambridge & to be here, & among friendly people.’ – Wittgenstein’s letters to Ben Richards and his philosophical work in Swansea by Alfred Schmidt
Chapter 5 – The ‘Swansea School’ by Mario von der Ruhr
Chapter 6 - JR Jones and Wittgenstein: Resisting the Demise of the Welsh-language ‘Neighbourhood’ by Huw Williams
Chapter 7 - Wittgenstein, Communitarianism, and Welsh Cultural-Linguistic Identity by Rhianwen Daniel
Chapter 8 - ‘Change and decay in all around I see’: The Wittgenstein School of English at Swansea by M. Wynn Thomas
Chapter 9 - Strange Country: The Cosmopolitan Particularism of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ralph Ellison by Daniel G. Williams
Chapter 10 - The Psychogeography of Swansea as a Stimulus for Wittgenstein’s Cerebration by Alan Sandry
Chapter 11 – Wittgenstein, Rhees and Philosophy: James Kelman in conversation
Chapter 12 - Family Recollections of Wittgenstein in Swansea by Jamie Bill
Wittgenstein’s Swansea Legacy and Contemporary Relevance: Afterword by Alan Sandry
Bibliography