This book is a collection of essays curated by Michael Peters and motivated by a 'cultural' reading of Wittgenstein.
Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, PR China, China and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland where he held a Personal Chair (2000-2005). He is the executive editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory and the author or editor of several books on Wittgenstein.
Introduction: Truth, Value and the Philosopher as Cultural Physician 1. Wittgenstein, Lyotard and the Philosophy of Technoscience 2. The ethics of reading Wittgenstein 3. Wittgenstein as Exile: A philosophical topography 4. Wittgenstein and the ethics of suicide: Homosexuality and Jewish self-hatred in fin de siècle Vienna 5. Wittgenstein and post-analytic philosophy of education: Rorty or Lyotard? 6. Wittgenstein at Cambridge: Philosophy as a way of life (Michael A. Peters and Jeff Stickney) 7. 'A picture holds us captive': Wittgenstein and the German tradition of Weltanschuung 8. Philosophy as Pedagogy: Wittgenstein's Styles of Thinking 9. Kinds of Thinking, Styles of Reasoning. Postscript: Wittgenstein's anti-philosophy Index