By exploring the significance of Wittgensteins later texts relating to the philosophy of language,Wittgensteins Later Theory of Meaning offers insights that will transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher.

Explores the significance of Wittgensteins later texts relating to the philosophy of language, and offers new insights that transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopherProvides original interpretations of  thesystematic points about language in Wittgensteins later writings that reveal his theory of meaningEngages in close readings of a variety of Wittgensteins later texts to explore what the philosopher really had to say about kinds of words and parts of speechFrees Wittgenstein from his reputation as an unsystematic thinker with nothing to offer but therapy for individual cases of philosophical confusion

Hans Julius Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His publications includePhantasie und Kalkül (1992) andReligion (2008). He also served as a co-editor of the journalDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie for a number of years and has made several contributions to this publication as well as numerous other philosophical essay collections.

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword by Charles Taylor viii

Introduction 1

1 The Fregean Perspective and Concomitant Expectations One Brings to Wittgenstein 7

2 How a Language Game Becomes Extended 21

3 Kinds of Expression 35

4 Function in Language Games and in Sentential Contexts 47

5 The Sound of a Sentence I: Singing from the Score 67

6 Projection: No Mere Mapping but a Creative Activity 83

7 The Sound of a Sentence II: Surface Grammar 98

8 Complexity 104

9 An Integration of Wittgenstein and Frege? 115

10 Dummetts Doubts and Freges Concept of Sense 128

11 Wittgenstein on Communicating Something 137

12 Grammatical Sense and Syntactic Metaphor: A Wittgensteinian Solution 152

13 A Theory of Meaning In What Sense? 166

Index 180