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Ray Monk

  • Wittgenstein’s Place in 20th-Century Analytic Philosophy by P.M.S. Hacker
    Blackwell, 368 pp, £50.00, October 1996, ISBN 0 631 20098 3
  • Wittgenstein: Mind and Will, Vol. IV of an Analytical Commentary on the ‘Philosophical Investigations’ by P.M.S. Hacker
    Blackwell, 742 pp, £90.00, August 1996, ISBN 0 631 18739 1

A feeling has been growing that analytic philosophy is in crisis. Once proud and disdainful of other traditions, it has become unsure of itself; uncertain about its past and fearful of its future. One sign of this insecurity is the debate now being conducted among leading analytic philosophers about their own history. Previously, they cared little about this. Confident in the superiority of their methods over those of earlier philosophers, they regarded an interest in history as a perverse preoccupation with the mistakes of the past. History was for second-class minds; first-class minds could safely ignore it and get on with the job in hand.

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