Preface
I Positivism and Metaphysics: The Vienna Circle and the Dispute over the Nothing
The Vienna Circle
Heidegger's Nothing and the Experience of Radical Derealization-Depersonalization
Freak-out in a French Town: Sartre and the Nothing
The Nothing and the Christian Purgatorial Night
Who's on First?
II Metaphysics as Profanation: Wittgenstein Reconsidered
The Philistine and the Prophet
The Tractatus: Preliminary Characterization
Mystic Flight: Theophanic Encounter
The Symbolization of the Mystic Peak: Unbefittingness, Inadequacy, Profanation
The Theophanic Encounter and the Rejection of Metaphysics
Silence
Being Absolutely Safe
The World-Symbol of the Tractatus
Ekstasis and Apatheia
God and the World
Of What One Can and Cannot Speak: The Say/Show-Itself Distinction
The Solipsism of the Tractatus
Existential Yearning: The Urge to the Mystical
Profanation and Obscurantism: The Judgment on Metaphysics
Some Problems with the Tractatus: A Theocentric Ethic Without Fallen Man
Problems II: "Legislative Linguistics"
Problems III: The Rejection of History
Problems IV: The Rejection of a Hierarchical Ontology
The Tractatus: Final Characterization
III From Prophecy to Scripture: The Canonization of Ordinary Language
Showing the Truth of the Tractatus: A Choice of Vocations
Breaking Silence-Wittgenstein's Encounter with Paul Engelmann
Creating a Monster
Remarks on Frazer
The Shift to Ordinary Language: A Celebration of the Common Man
From Prophetism to the Spirit of Jamnia: A New Conservatism and a New Epoch
Off to Russia
The Triumph of Ordinary Language Philosophy in Britain
IV Linguistic Tribalism and the Revolt Against Innerlichkeit
Saving Society/ Saving Oneself
"Our Language"
Coming in Out of the Storm: Metaphysics, Mysticism, and the Significance of the Mental Health Metaphors
Towards a Behaviorist View of Mind: The Revolt Against Inwardness
Towards a Behaviorist View of Mind: The Revolt Against Privacy
Work Therapy vs Language Therapy
The Attack on the Notion of Universal Essences
A Comparison with Augustine
Linguistic Tribalism and the Ultimate Failure of Ordinary Language Philosophy: An Evaluation
An Exoteric Philosophy: Wittgenstein's Relationship to His Later Thought
V Concluding Remarks on the Nature of Language as Spiel
Index