Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics

Mikel Burley is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of three previous books, including Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips (2012). He is also a co-editor of Language, Ethics and Animal Life: Wittgenstein and Beyond (2012).

[The] essays in this collection admirably demonstrate the range and depth of Wittgenstein’s ideas and the enduring significance of his thought for inspiring work in the study of religion and ethics.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Wittgenstein, Religion and Ethics: Seeing the Connections, Mikel Burley (University of Leeds, UK)1. The Early Wittgenstein on Ethical Religiousness as a Dispositional Attitude, Chon Tejedor (University of Hertfordshire, UK)2. ‘The Problem of Life’: Later Wittgenstein on the Difficulty of Honest Happiness, Gabriel Citron (Princeton University, USA)3. Wittgenstein and the Study of Religion: Beyond Fideism and Atheism, Mikel Burley (University of Leeds, UK)4. Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and Chalcedon, Rowan Williams (University of Cambridge, UK)5. On the Very Idea of a Theodicy, Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton, UK)6. Wittgenstein, Analogy and Religion in Mulhall’s The Great Riddle, Wayne Proudfoot (Columbia University, USA)7. Riddles, Nonsense and Religious Language, Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford, UK)8. Wittgenstein and the Distinctiveness of Religious Language, Michael Scott (University of Manchester, UK)9. Number and Transcendence: Wittgenstein and Cantor, John Milbank (University of Nottingham, UK)10. What Have I Done?, Sophie Grace Chappell (The Open University, UK)11. Wittgenstein and the Value of Clarity, Duncan Richter (Virginia Military University, USA)BibliographyIndex