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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021)

The Character of Philosophical Criticism in Wittgenstein and Marx

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4885327
Submitted
January 19, 2021
Published
2021-06-01

Abstract

Certain claims that Wittgenstein made about the role of philosophy (that it "has no thesis," that it "leaves everything as it is") have earned him criticism for being a supposedly conservative and anti-revolutionary author. This article begins by exposing how these statements do not have the meaning that these critics gave them, and is made through a comment of the beginning of the Philosophical Investigations. From there, it is a question of relating the philosophical project of the second Wittgenstein with that of Karl Marx, an author not suspected of being "conservative" or "anti-revolutionary." The central axis of the comparison is the parallelism that exists between the ideas of language and consciousness in both authors, and the deep link that these have with social practice. 

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