This book is a collection of essays motivated by a "cultural" and biographical reading of Wittgenstein. It includes some new essays and some that were originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory. The book focuses on the concept of technoscience, and the relevance of Wittgensteins work for philosophy of technology which amplifies Lyotards reading and provides a critique of education as an increasingly technology-led enterprise. It includes a distinctive view on the ethics of reading Wittgenstein and the ethics of suicide that shaped him. It also examines the reception and engagement with Wittgensteins work in French philosophy with a chapter on post-analytic philosophy of education as a choice between Richard Rorty and Jean-Franēois Lyotard. Peters examines Wittgensteins academic life at Cambridge University and his involvement as a student and faculty member in the Moral Sciences Club. Finally, the book provides an understanding of Wittgensteinian styles of reasoning and the concept of worldview. Is it possible to escape the picture that holds us captive? This constitutes a challenging introduction to Wittgensteins work for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, technology and philosophy.
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 sičcle Vienna
5. Wittgenstein and postanalytic 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: Wittgensteins Styles of Thinking
9. Kinds of
Thinking, Styles of Reasoning. Postscript: Wittgenstein's anti-philosophy
Index
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 UrbanaChampaign. He is currently also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland where he held a Personal Chair (20002005). He is the executive editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory and the author or editor of several books on Wittgenstein.
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