Anat biletzki biography sample
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Philosophy of Human Rights: A Systematic Introduction [Hardback]
"Biletzki has written the definitive account of the human rights thinking that emerges from centuries of philosophical conversations. She covers, succinctly and clearly, the most fundamental classical writers, for example Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rawls, as well as scores of contemporary ones like Arendt, Nussbaum, Balibar and Levinas. She deftly lays out complicated material about the most fundamental issues and conflicts within the field: the relationship between equality and freedom, the ability to have rights and its relationship to state formation, the way our very language shapes our thinking, whether human rights need to be religiously grounded, whether human rights doctrine is inherently Eurocentric, ferociously individualistic, and selectively enforced... If you are looking for one book on the swathe of human rights ideas, their history and practical implications, then this is the book for you." - Eve Spangler, Author of Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict, Boston College, USA
"Anat Biletzki gives us a sophisticated and accessible discourse on pivotal issues of philosophyhow rights are conceived and practiced, contested and reshaped, beaten back and reasse
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Anat Biletzki: (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein
Introduction
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Anat Biletzki: (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein
Chapter 12: Idolatry and Fashion
Am I the only one who cannot found a school or can a philosopher never do this? I cannot found a school because I do not really want to be imitated. Not at any rate by those who publish articles in philosophical journals. (Culture and Value, 61)
During the period since 1914 three philosophies have successively dominated the British philosophical world first that of Wittgensteins Tractatus, second that of the Logical Positivists, and third that of Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations.1This estimate of importance is how things looked to Russell in 1959. But forty years later Peter Hacker summarizes things differently: