This book attempts to give a detailed and critical account of Wittgenstein’s views on religious belief and discourse. Its focus is on later writings of Wittgenstein. A systematic account of his perspective on religious belief is not available in these writings. It has, therefore, to be constructed on the basis of brief, cryptic and scattered remarks in his notebooks and some of the writings and the class-notes taken by his students. This book presents a clear, systematic and lucid account of a difficult thinker that Wittgenstein is and in an area not often addressed in scholarly writings on Wittgenstein. It relates his account to the contemporary debates on the nature of religious discourse and rationality of religious belief. The book would be useful for students and research scholars of philosophy and also for general readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vibha Chaturvedi
Dr. Vibha Chaturvedi is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi. For more than two decades she has worked and written extensively in various academic journals on a range of diverse philosophical issues. These areas include philosophy of religion, modern western and analytic philosophy, gender issues and philosophy of mind. Her earlier book 'The Problem of Personal Identity' had dealt with complex philosophical issues relating to definition of personal identity in terns of psychological/ physical continuity. Dr. Chaturvedi had a brilliant academic career. After teaching for few years at Lucknow University, she moved over to Delhi University in 1983. She has been a fellow of I.C.P.R. twice: 1987-88 and 1991-92. She has also been a fellow of I.C.S.S.R. in 1993-94. Currently, Professor Chaturvedi is engaged in research on 'Karma, Freedom and Responsibility in Classical Indian Philosophy.'
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