ABSTRACT
This chapter centres on a reading of 16, a key (unduly neglected) source for a (liberatory) reading of Wittgenstein. It addresses the key question raised against the kind of vision of the Wittgensteinian method that Rupert Read proposes: that it amounts to a kind of relativism/subjectivism. His answer will make good the following response: that this charge is true to a significantly lesser extent than is commonly assumed. Here Read sets out a certain disagreement with the later work of Gordon Baker inasmuch as Baker seems to imply otherwise, through promoting an excessive philosophical/cultural ‘individualism’ which Read does not share, and which he believes to be vitiated by the anti-‘private-language’ considerations, (and) by understanding the true ethical, existential, and political dimensions of the philosophical task, after Wittgenstein.
