This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein's approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein's earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein's notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.

• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: The Form of Our Life with Language
• Paths to Form(s) of Life
• The Rule of the Game (The Moment of Truth)
• Lebensformen: Living Logic
• Human Life and Self-consciousness. The Idea of ‘Our’ Form of Life in Hegel and Wittgenstein
• Duality, Force, Language-games and Our Form of Life
• Form(s) of Life: the Very Idea
• Our Life with Truth
• Language-games, Lebensform, and the Ancient City
• Language-games and Forms of Life in Mathematics
• The Representation of Language
• Form(s) of Life after Wittgenstein
• Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying
• Wittgenstein. Ordinary Language as Lifeform
• Hostage to a Stranger
• Biographical Notes
• Index