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Traditional and Analytical Philosophy: Lectures on the Philosophy of Language

Ernst Tugendhat's case for analytical philosophy, written by a thinker who first trained in Heidegger's tradition.
Reading guide
This is a single self-contained work, so it can be read on its own without any preparatory reading, though readers new to the philosophy of language may find it helpful to have some background in Frege or Wittgenstein.
The lectures trace the author's argument from his earlier grounding in phenomenological and hermeneutical thinking to his conviction that analytical methods offer the better approach. They then apply linguistic analysis to central questions of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

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Ernst Tugendhat began his philosophical training in the phenomenological and hermeneutical tradition of Heidegger, but came to believe that philosophy is best done analytically, through close attention to language. These lectures were first published in German in 1976 and translated into English in 1982, and they grow directly from that change of conviction.

The book applies the methods of linguistic analysis to some of the oldest questions in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Because the author knew the continental tradition from the inside, his testing of its concerns against analytical rigour gives the work its particular interest for readers who want to see how the two strands of modern philosophy might speak to one another.

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