The possibility of progress : a comparative study of the philosophical development of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein

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2002
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
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This paper investigates the possibility of integration of both the early and late works of the contemporaneous philosophers Heidegger and Wittgenstein. The comparative study focuses not on specific theories or arguments in the philosophers' thoughts, but rather on the thought path that each of them traversed from early to late modes of thought. The paper boldly characterizes the thought development of the two philosophers as demonstrating a general progression from modern thought (early Wittgenstein) to postmodern thought (late Wittgenstein, early Heidegger) to what the author calls post-postmodern thought, a type of thinking that not only distinct from the postmodern, but both extends and transcends it.
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