The singularity of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. Physiognomy of the text. (in Portuguese - Editora da Unicamp, 2015)
The purpose of this book is to trace a physiognomy of the
most important work written by Wittgenstein in the later phase of his
philosophical activities. The point of being physiognomic, so to say, is to
apply in a Wittgensteinian way the same method the author inherited from Goethe
and Spengler, and worked out inspired by Darwin, Freud, Frazer and Weininger, to his own work.
For that matter, it presents a portrait of Philosophical Investigations not
only as an unfinished book with organic connections with the totality of the Nachlass,
but it also takes into account a number of questions regarding writing style,
the philosophical significance of expression in contradistinction to
description, and why the author's philosophy is so difficult to understand,
considering the coexistence in the secondary literature of many incompatible
Wittgensteins.
This book is intended to serve
as a philosophical description in preparation for a new Portuguese en face translation
of the Philosophical Investigations, to be published by the same publishing
house probably in 2017, but it can also be profitable to anyone who wants a
more comprehensive study of such fabulous work composed by a brilliant and
polemical philosopher.
