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| Personal Name | Espiritu, Jairus Diesta |
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| Resource Title | Antiphilosophical investigations : Badiou's notion of antiphilosophy and Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations |
| Date Issued | 18 December 2019 |
| Abstract | The 20th century can adequately be called philosophy’s Age of Identity Crisis as it is plagued with discourses critiquing philosophy. One of the most damaging critiques of philosophy in the past century was made by Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has famously declared the nonsensicality of philosophy after the publication of his first magnum opus, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. As a testament to his work, he thereafter abandoned philosophizing altogether. This abandonment did not take long as he later returned to philosophizing, marked by his second magnum opus, the Philosophical Investigations. This return showed a radically different notion of language and a different approach to the critique of philosophy, but nevertheless an equally damaging one. If Wittgenstein’s critique is indeed damaging, it is curious that philosophy has continuously thrived in the several decades since. Philosophy, specially the analytic tradition, seems to have swept Wittgenstein’s critique under the rug by continuously philosophizing without adequately dealing with its nature. Alain Badiou, a contemporary French philosopher, attempts to deal with Wittgenstein’s critique by properly placing him in the history of philosophy, alongside other critics of philosophy whom he calls “antiphilosophers”. Badiou, however, only goes as far as saying that the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus was an antiphilosopher, calling the Wittgenstein of the Investigations “sophistic”. In this thesis, I argue that the Wittgenstein of the Investigations is also an antiphilosopher. Drawing from Badiou’s scattered writings on antiphilosophy and considering other contemporary accounts, I draw a definition of antiphilosophy. I then apply the definition to both the Tractatus and the Investigations. I argue that both works of Wittgenstein share the same, continuing project. If this continuity is correct, there is no reason for Badiou to reject an antiphilosophical reading to the Investigations. |
| Degree Course | Master of Arts in Philosophy |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Badiou; Psychoanalysis and philosophy; Philosophical Investigations; Antiphilosophy; Psychoanalysis; Wittgenstein |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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