Abstract

KARCZMARCZYK, Pedro. El seguimiento de reglas ¿es la praxis de un sujeto? Wittgenstein y las ciencias sociales. Tópicos [online]. 2017, n.34, pp.8-47. ISSN 1666-485X.

The present paper confronts the interpretation of Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations as "the praxis of a subject" with an alternative interpretation which thinks of the participants in a language-games as "the subjects of a practice". We develop this contrast through an analysis of some key distinctions in The Blue and Brown Books (meaningful action and habit, etc.) which require elucidation of concepts like "blind obedience" an "the limit of justification". In the second part of the paper we try to show that the "praxis of a subject" view allows an hermeneutic reading of Wittgenstein in the field of the social sciences, while the "subject of a practice" view performs some critical considerations, particularly its denial to understand the phenomena teleologically, which equates to the recognition of the objectivity of socialreality, that it to say, to the operation of definition of scientific object that underlies to the sciences historically constituted. We point in our conclusion some points in common with the foundational operations of historical materialism.

Keywords : Wittgenstein; Rule-following; Blind-obedience; Limit of the justification; Social sciences.

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