Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein was one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy, yet he shunned publicity and was essentially a private man. This remarkable, vivid, personal memoir is written by one of his friends, the eminent philosopher Norman Malcolm. Reissued in paperback, this edition includes the complete text of fifty-seven letters which Wittgenstein wrote to Malcolm over a period of eleven years. Also included is a concise biographical sketch by another of Wittgenstein's philosopher friends, Georg Henrik von Wright.'A reader does not need to care about philosophy to be excited by Mr Malcolm's book; it is about Wittgenstein as a man, and its interest is human interest'. (From a review of the first edition in the Manchester Guardian)
Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View?
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said: 'I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.' This study, the last work of the distinguished philosopher Norman Malcolm, is a discussion of what Wittgenstein may have meant by this and its significance for philosophy. The book concludes with a critical discussion of Malcolm's essay by Peter Winch.
Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said: 'I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.' This study, the last work of the distinguished philosopher Norman Malcolm, is a discussion of what Wittgenstein may have meant by this and its significance for philosophy. The book concludes with a critical discussion of Malcolm's essay by Peter Winch.
Dreaming
None
Wittgenstein
None
Wittgensteinian Themes
At a time when interest in the Wittgensteinian tradition has quickened, this volume brings together fourteen essays by Norman Malcolm, a prominent philosopher who studied with Wittgenstein. Including some of Malcolm's last work, the papers address key aspects of Wittgenstein's legacy. Wittgensteinian Themes demonstrates the clarity and accessibility for which Malcolm's writing is renowned. Like most of his work, the essays examine basic issues in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Himself a noted philosopher, Georg Henrik von Wright has chosen the papers included here and appended to the volume his eloquent Memorial Address for Norman Malcolm, delivered at King's College, London, in November 1990. Professor von Wright has also supplied a brief preface.
Portrona
Norman Malcolm Macdonald's last novel is set in a town not a million miles from that which we now know as Stornoway in the 19th and early 20th centuries - from the Bounty to the Iolaire he regarded it as the most important piece of writing he had done and the summation of what he wanted to say. The result is an epic novel in a short space teeming with characters as the sea teemed with fish; a novel which sums up the soul of the Hebrides and of the Gael. From landlords and the great estates, through Madame Volkova the Russian herring buyer, poets, fisherfolk, self-made men, factors, to the final moving reflections on the fate of the Iolaire which tore so much of the heart out of the Outer Isles, the author moves with the sweep and confidence of a man speaking not just for himself, but for a whole community. This book tells the story of two ships with totally unexpected connections with the town of Stornoway...over 900 books have been written on the Mutiny on the Bounty, the bo'sun of which was from Stornoway. The other ship connected with this town is HMS Iolaire, about which one book has been written. It says something about the vagaries of history that this should be so: three men
Ludwig Wittgenstein
None
