Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance

'This book takes up the cause of relativism with an enjoyable mix of zeal and careful argumentation. Klbels book is invaluable for philosophers interested in the prospects for relativism or in problems of objectivity in general.' - Matthew McGrath in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 'Swashbuckling Klbels book is clear, original, and stimulating. It is a refreshingly straightforward attempt to advance a relativism that will, at the very least, require the reader to think more carefully about how to approach in a different way the data Klbel seeks to illuminate.' - Richard Fumerton in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews '[An] intriguing new collection ... a valuable collection of papers, many of which will no doubt become required reading for anyone seriously interested in Wittgensteinian scholarship.' - Philosophical Investigations

Max Kolbel is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, and the author of Truth Without Objectivity (Routledge, 2002). Bernhard Weiss is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, and the author of Michael Dummett (2002).

Contributors Introduction 1. Nonsense and Cosmic Exile: The Austere Reading of the Tracatus What is the Tracatus About? 2. On Reading the Tracatus Resolutely: Reply to Meredith Williams and Peter Sullivan 3. Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophical Development 4. Wittgenstein and the Life of Signs 5. Wittgenstein as Soil 6. Immodesty Without Mirrors: Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Linguistic Pluralism 7. Wittgenstein's Remarks on Godel's Theorem 8. Scepticism, Certainty, Moore and Wittgenstein 9. Wittgenstein, Truth and Certainty 10. A Second Wave of Enlightenment: Kant, Wittgenstein and the Continental Tradition Wittgenstein Bibliography