Perry Anderson
Perry AndersonGottlob Frege's philosophy, for all its emphasis on meaning, was not only systematic, but critical. For it retained a stringent concern with truth.
Language is a structure with a history, and it has a history because its contradictions and discrepancies themselves are determined by other levels of social practice.
Ludwig Wittgenstein , lacking any notion of contradiction, evacuated time from language, and thereby converted it into an ahistorical absolute.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's basic program has to be rejected. Philosophy cannot be content to leave everything as it is ,for linguistic practice is not immune to, and may well stand in need of, revision.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion that all language-games can find their warrant in culturally variable 'forms of life', was inevitably to afford a franchise for intellectual relativism.
Ludwig Wittgenstein is responsible for paving the way for the particularist doctrine that the signification of sentences could only lie in their heterogeneous usages.
