Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge (Traditions in Social Theory)

Front Matter....Pages i-xii A Problem and a Plan....Pages 1-5 From Mental Images to Social Interactions....Pages 6-21 Language-Games and the Stream of Life....Pages 22-49 The Social Construction of Mental States....Pages 50-82 Mathematics: An Anthropological Phenomenon....Pages 83-111 Compulsions, Conventions and Codifications....Pages 112-136 The Systematic Study of Language-Games....Pages 137-159 Positivism and Cultural Pessimism....Pages 160-181 The Heirs to the Subject that used to be called Philosophy....Pages 182-184 Back Matter....Pages 185-213