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"Wittgenstein's Vienna" : een kennissociologische benadering

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Abstract

„Wittgenstein’s Vienna”. An approach from the sociology of knowledge — The author argues that the well known study by two American philosophers, Allan Janik & Stephen Toulmin: Wittgenstein’s Vienna (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1973) contains a series of propositions which can easily be reformulated in terms of the sociology of knowledge. Indeed, Janik and Toulmin try to interpret the major philosophical work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Tractatus logico philosophicus (London, 1922) not only as a study of logic, but as a work about ethics, and in the first place, as an ethical act, by examining the social and cultural characteristics of the Viennese society of Wittgenstein’s youth. This contribution successively pays attention to the following „topics” from the point of view of the sociology of knowledge and by searching the points of connection with communication science : — the author in a given social and cultural context. This topic includes also some remarks about the use of content analysis as a research method by the sociology of knowledge ; — the author in relation to his public; — the question of real or presumed similarities between Wittgenstein’s Vienna and the present time.

How to Cite:

Van Parys, G., (1981) “"Wittgenstein's Vienna" : een kennissociologische benadering”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 26(3), 208–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.94797