Philosophy after Wittgenstein and Heidegger

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (4):649-672 (1990)
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Abstract

The question is: how does the thought of Heidegger and the later Wittgenstein lead to such different postfoundationalist views as those of Charles Taylor and Richard Rorty? I consider how the "phenomenology of everyday life" in Heidegger and Wittgenstein shows (1) that understanding is dependent on a social background of meanings, and (2) that the sense of reality embodied in our actions is prestructured by language. This picture of everydayness is holistic, antidualistic and nonfoundationalist. I conclude by focusing the debate between Taylor and Rorty, suggesting that Taylor's reading of our current philosophical situation is more viable

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