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1. Marx and Wittgenstein

   Knowledge, Morality and Politics

   Edited by Gavin Kitching, Nigel Pleasants

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   At first sight, Karl Marx and Ludwig Wittgenstein may well seem to be as different from each other as it is possible for the ideas of two major intellectuals to be. Despite this standard conception, however, a small number of scholars have long suggested that there are deeper philosophical...

   Published September 4th 2002 by Routledge
2. Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory

   A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar

   By Nigel Pleasants

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented preeminently by Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Renouncing the quest for an alternative Wittgensteinian theory of social and political life, the author shows...

   Published July 28th 1999 by Routledge