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A literary/philosophical investigation of the pragmatic existentialism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Philosophical Investigation. The historical contexts in which these texts were written will be given by locating them in Wittgenstein's life and the intellectual worlds in which he did his thinking. A literary analysis of the impact of the form of the texts on their content will show the unity of his existential concerns in both texts. Philosophical defenses and critiques of his claims and arguments will be located in the context of interpretations of these texts by other philosophers.

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Dr. Henry L. Ruf is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at West Virginia University and presently is teaching philosophy and rreligion at Jacksonville University. Previously he taught at Boston Univeresity and SUNY Oswego. He holds a BA from Macalester College and the MA and PHD from Emory Univeristy. He did graduate studies at Cornell University and Harvaard Divinity School. He has taught on Fulbright Fellowships in Japan, China and Thailand, with guest lecturships in Pakistan and Tibet. He is the author of Postmodern Rationality, Social Criticism and Religion; World Religions in a Postmodern Age; The Biblical God of Worship and the Biblical Worship of God; Philosophers Find God.

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