Inheritance and Originality Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard [Hardcover]

What does it mean to think of philosophy in the condition of modernism, in which its relation to its past and future has become a relevant problem? This book argues that the writings of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions. Through detailed analysis of these authors' most influential texts, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, engendering a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge.

Introduction
1. Modernist Origins: Reading Stanley Cavell'sThe Claim of Reason
Part One
Wittgenstein's Vision of Language: Reading thePhilosophical Investigations
Part Two
Heidegger's Vision of Scepticism: ReadingBeing and TimeandWhat is Called Thinking?
Part Three
Kierkegaard's Vision of Religion: ReadingPhilosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling, andRepetition
Acknowledgements
Bibliography

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford.