Wittgenstein and Politics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Wittgenstein and Democratic Politics Lotar Rasiński and Leszek Koczanowicz

Part 1: Grounding the Political

2. The Heart of the Heart: Wittgenstein’s Place in Political Theory Thomas Wallgren

3. Using Wittgenstein’s Method to Explain and Understand Democratic Politics Michael Temelini

4. Wittgenstein as a Political Philosopher Richard Raatzsch

5. Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Politics Hans Sluga

Part 2: Conceptual Entanglements

6. Grounding Democracy in Radical Practices of Care: From Sameness to Entanglement Naomi Scheman

7. What Is a “Democratic” Form of Life? Anat Biletzki

8. Community and Temporality: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Political Judgment Désirée Weber

9. Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblances” and their Political Potential Dimitris Gakis

Part 3: Seeing Connections

10. Wittgenstein, Arendt, and the Problem of Democratic Persuasion Linda M. G. Zerilli

11. Wittgenstein and the Politics of Vision Adam Chmielewski

12. The Proletariat and the Left: Critical Perspectives – Thinking of Political Understanding and Persuasion with Eribon, Arendt and Wittgenstein Anat Matar

13. Language-Based Critique of Deliberation as a “Picture” in the “Album Theory” of Democracy Wojciech Ufel

Conclusion

14. Philosophy and / or Politics: Learning from Engagement with Wittgenstein Thomas Wallgren and Anat Biletzki