A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes examines how some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have so puzzled philosophers over the centuries can be dissolved Read argues that paradoxes such as the Sorites Russell s Paradox and the paradoxes of time travel do not in fact need to be solved Rather using a resolute Wittgensteinian therapeutic method the book explores how virtually all apparent philosophical paradoxes can be diagnosed and dissolved through examining their conditions of arising to loosen their grip and therapeutically liberate those philosophers suffering from them including oneself The book contrasts such paradoxes with real lived paradoxes paradoxes that are genuinely experienced outside of the philosopher s study in everyday life Thus Read explores instances of lived paradox such as paradoxes of self hatred and of denial of other humans humanity and the harm they can cause psychically morally or politically These lived paradoxes he argues sometimes cannot be dissolved using a Wittgensteinian treatment Moreover in some cases they do not need to be for some such as the paradoxical practices of Zen Buddhism and indeed of Wittgenstein himself can in fact be beneficial The book shows how once philosophers paradoxes have been exorcized real lived paradoxes can be given their due

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