Beyond The Tractatus Wars

Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "resolute" reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate about Wittgenstein and his philosophy, and this book draws together the latest thinking of the world's leading Tractatarian scholars and promising newcomers. Showcasing one piece alternately from each "camp", Beyond the Tractatus Wars pairs newly commissioned pieces addressing differing views on how to understand early Wittgenstein, providing for the first time an arena in which the debate between "strong" resolutists, "mild" resolutists and "elucidatory" readers of the book can really take place. The collection includes famous "samizdat" essays by Warren Goldfarb and Roger White that are finally seeing the light of day.

Rupert Read is Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Matthew A. Lavery is Director of the Learning Center at Adelphi University in the US.

1. Das Überwinden: Anti-Metaphysical Readings of the Tractatus Warren Goldfarb 2. Throwing the Baby Out with the Ladder: On "Therapeutic" Readings of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Roger M. White 3. Throwing the Baby Out: A Reply to Roger White James Conant and Ed Dain 4. Context, Compositionality, and Nonsense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Silver Bronzo 5. Toward a Useful Jacobinism: A Response to Bronzo Matthew A. Lavery 6. The Dialectic of Interpretations: Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Oskari Kuusela 7. The Possibility of a Resolutely Resolute Reading of the Tractatus Rupert Read and Rob Deans 8. Synthesizing Without Concepts Peter Sullivan 9. Response to Sullivan A.W. Moore