Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Frank Cioffi
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:324
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 154
Category/GenreWestern philosophy from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521626248
ClassificationsDewey:192
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 July 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

What is it that troubles and preoccupies us about the anxieties and anguishes of social and private life? Have advances in the disciplines of psychoanalysis, psychology or the social sciences in general ministered to our needs in these areas? Frank Cioffi's elegantly argued essays range over Wittgenstein's treatment of Frazer's anthropological accounts of human sacrifice and other ritual practices, and Freud's dealings with dreams, jokes and mental life in general. This volume will be of wide interest to readers in philosophy, psychology and aesthetics.

Reviews

' ... the essays are excellent, both as interpretation and as criticism.' Times Literary Supplement