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David Rubinstein, Marx and Wittgenstein: Social Praxis and Social Explanation (London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981). Pp., viii + 231.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Steven A.M. Burns
Steven A.M. Burns*
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Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia CanadaB3H 3J5
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 133 - 149
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References

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2 Rossi-Landi, F. ‘Towards a Marxian Use of Wittgenstein,’ in Nyíri, J.C. ed., Austrian Philosophy: Studies and Texts (Munich: Philosophia Verlag 1981) 113–49Google Scholar

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4 I recommend on these questions a work not available to Rubinstein: Fania Pascal's ‘Wittgenstein, a Personal Memoir,’ in Rhees, Rush ed., Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections (Oxford: Blackwell 1981) 26–62.Google Scholar ‘It is inane to affix any political label to him,’ she says (57), and explains very clearly why. See also her account of Wittgenstein's close friendship with the ‘fiery communist,’ Dr. Nicholas Bachtin (28 ff.).

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7 Fann, 27, quoting from The German Ideology.

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11 See Wittgenstein, L. ‘Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough,’ Synthese, 17 (1969) 233–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

12 Compare Winch: ‘I do not wish to maintain that we must stop at the unreflective kind of understanding … but I do want to say that any more reflective understanding must necessarily presuppose … the participant's unreflective understanding’ (89).

13 Marx, The German Ideology, in McLellan, 167Google Scholar

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16 See, e.g., Singer, Peter Marx (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1980) 39.Google Scholar

17 Wittgenstein, L. Culture and Value, tr. Winch, Peter (Oxford: Blackwell 1980) 60.Google Scholar I am grateful to Professor K.R. Fischer and Dr. Ludwig Nagl for advice on these topics.