Understanding Wittgenstein, understanding modernism
by Matar, Anat
"In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein's relevance beyond analytic philosophy, to continental philosophy, to cultural studies, and to the arts has been widely acknowledged. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was published in 1922 -- the annus mirabilis of modernism -- alongside Joyce's Ulysses, Eliot's The Waste Land, Mansfield's The Garden Party and Woolf's Jacob's Room. Bertolt Brecht's first play to be produced, Drums in the Night, was first staged in 1922, as was Jean Coct…
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"In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein's relevance beyond analytic philosophy, to continental philosophy, to cultural studies, and to the arts has been widely acknowledged. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was published in 1922 -- the annus mirabilis of modernism -- alongside Joyce's Ulysses, Eliot's The Waste Land, Mansfield's The Garden Party and Woolf's Jacob's Room. Bertolt Brecht's first play to be produced, Drums in the Night, was first staged in 1922, as was Jean Cocteau's Antigone, with settings by Pablo Picasso and music by Arthur Honegger. In different ways, all these modernist landmarks dealt with the crisis of representation and the demise of eternal metaphysical and ethical truths. Wittgenstein's Tractatus can be read as defining, expressing and reacting to this crisis. In his later philosophy, Wittgenstein adopted a novel philosophical attitude, sensitive to the ordinary uses of language as well as to the unnoticed dogmas they may betray. If the gist of modernism is self-reflection and attention to the way form expresses content, then Wittgenstein's later ideas -- in their fragmented form as well as their "ear-opening" contents -- deliver it most precisely. Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism shows Wittgenstein's work, both early and late, to be closely linked to the modernist Geist that prevailed during his lifetime. Yet it would be wrong to argue that Wittgenstein was a modernist tout court. For Wittgenstein, as well as for modernist art, understanding is not gained by such straightforward statements. It needs time, hesitation, a variety of articulations, the refusal of tempting solutions, and perhaps even a sense of defeat. It is such a vision of the linkage between Wittgenstein and modernism that guides the present volume."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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- Publication Date:2017.
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- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781501302459, 1501302450, 9781501302466, 1501302469
- oclc:ocn954720118
- LC Classification:B3376.W564
- Dewey Decimal:192
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Series Preface; Introduction: Giving the Viewer an Idea of the Landscape; Part 1 -- Conceptualizing Wittgenstein; Chapter 1 Language, Expressibility and the Mystical; 1 Mysticism: Philosophical and anti-philosophical; 2 What can and cannot be said; 3 Existence, safety and guilt; 4 The ascetic ideal; 5 Culture and civilization; 6 Wittgenstein and modernism; Chapter 2 Modernism and Philosophical Language: Phenomenology, Wittgenstein and the Everyday; 1 Phenomenology as modernism.
2 The early Wittgenstein's reconfiguration of philosophical language3 The later Wittgenstein: Completing the departure; Chapter 3 Wittgenstein and 'Ordinary Language Philosophy'; 1 The early Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn; 2 The turn towards actual linguistic practice; 3 'Ordinary language philosophy'; 4 Philosophy and ordinary language; 5 Philosophy, logical analysis and formal logic; 6 Philosophy and metaphysics; 7 The nature of philosophy; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Wittgenstein's Modernist Political Philosophy.
1 Wittgenstein's philosophy of meaning as the foundation of conservatism, socialism and liberalism2 Wittgenstein's …
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