Wittgenstein: Attention To Particulars: Essays In Honour Of Rush Rhees

by Rush Rhees, Peter Winch (Editor), D.Z. Phillips (Editor)

The title of this collection alludes to Wittgenstein's idea that the problems with which philosophers wrestle are confusions which arise through an unwarranted extension of the use of words beyond their employment in ordinary discourse. Wittgenstein speaks of the 'contemptuous attitude to the particular case' as an evil due to the imitation by philosophers of the methods and patterns of a science which seeks generalizations and explanatory theories.

205 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1989

About the author

Rush Rhees was an American philosopher. He is principally known as a student, friend, and literary executor of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Rhees taught at Swansea University from 1940 to 1966.

Not to be confused with his father (Benjamin) Rush Rhees, third president of the University of Rochester.