Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and the Habsburg Dilemma

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• Language and Solitude - Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Foreword xiii
• Part I - The Habsburg Dilemma 1
• 1 - Swing Alone or Swing Together 3
• 2 - The Rivals 7
• 3 - Genesis of the Individualist Vision 14
• 4 - The Metaphysics of Romanticism 17
• 5 - Romanticism and the Basis of Nationalism 21
• 6 - Individualism and Holism in Society 26
• 7 - Crisis in Kakania 30
• 8 - Pariah Liberalism 35
• 9 - Recapitulation 37
• Part II - Wittgenstein 41

• Language and Solitude - Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Foreword xiii
• Part I - The Habsburg Dilemma 1
• 1 - Swing Alone or Swing Together 3
• 2 - The Rivals 7
• 3 - Genesis of the Individualist Vision 14
• 4 - The Metaphysics of Romanticism 17
• 5 - Romanticism and the Basis of Nationalism 21
• 6 - Individualism and Holism in Society 26
• 7 - Crisis in Kakania 30
• 8 - Pariah Liberalism 35
• 9 - Recapitulation 37
• Part II - Wittgenstein 41
• 10 - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Empiricist 43
• 11 - The Poem to Solitude, Or: Confessions of a Transcendental Ego Who is Also a Viennese Jew 46
• 12 - Ego and Language 59
• 13 - The World as Solitary Vice 62
• 14 - The Mystical 65
• 15 - The Central Proposition of the Tractatus World Without Culture 68
• 16 - Wittgenstein Mark 2 71
• 17 - Tertium Non Datur 74
• 18 - Joint Escape 79
• 19 - Janik and Toulmin: a Critique 85
• 20 - The Case of the Disappearing Self 96
• 21 - Pariah Communalism 100
• 22 - Iron Cage Kafka-Style 107
• Part III - Malinowski 111
• 23 - The Birth of Modern Social Anthropology 113
• 24 - The Malinowskian Revolution 120
• 25 - How Did Malinowski Get There? 123
• 26 - Whither Anthropology? Or: Whither Bronislaw? 127
• 27 - The Difference Between Cracow and Vienna 138
• 28 - Malinowski's Achievement and Politics 140
• 29 - Malinowski's Theory of Language 145
• 30 - Malinowski's Later Mistake 151
• 31 - The (Un) Originality of Malinowski and Wittgenstein 155
• Part IV - Influences 157
• 32 - The Impact and Diffusion of Wittgenstein's Ideas 159
• 33 - The First Wave of Wittgenstein's Influence 164
• 34 - The Belated Convergence of Philosophy and Anthropology 174
• Part V - Conclusions 179
• 35 - The Truth of the Matter 181
• 36 - Our Present Condition 189
• Bibliography 192
• Bibliographies of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and Nationalism 195
• Index 205