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Wittgenstein took literature extremely seriously and did not consider it of secondary importance.However, academic philosophy often shies away from the literary inflection of his philosophy. This is the first book to provide detailed discussions of his engagement with individual authors, such as Dos...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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On wittgenstein;
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| Summary: |
Wittgenstein took literature extremely seriously and did not consider it of secondary importance.However, academic philosophy often shies away from the literary inflection of his philosophy. This is the first book to provide detailed discussions of his engagement with individual authors, such as Dostoevsky, Goethe, and Shakespeare. The book is essential for the cultural contextualizationfor Wittgenstein scholars and scholars of literature. |
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1 online resource(x,414pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110294699 |
| Index Number: | B3376 |
| CLC: | B516.54 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction / Being Lost and Finding Home: Philosophy, Confession, Recollection, and Conversion in Augustine s Confessions and Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations / The Character of a Name: Wittgenstein s Remarks on Shakespeare / To Not Understand, but Not Misunderstand: Wittgenstein on Shakespeare / Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare / Why the Tractatus, like the Old Testament, is "Nothing but a Book" / Wittgenstein Lights Lichtenberg s Candle: Flashlights of Enlightenment in Wittgenstein s Thought / Wittgenstein and Goethe: Getting Rid of "Sorge" / Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Conservative Legacy of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy / Best Readings: Wittgenstein and Grillparzer / Wittgenstein s Reception of Wagner: Language, Music, and Culture / Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilhelm Busch: "Humour is not a mood, but a Weltanschauung " / Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky / Wittgenstein Re-Reading / The Significance of Dostoevsky (and Ludwig Anzengruber) for Wittgenstein / A Remarkable Fact: Wittgenstein Reading Tolstoy / Note to Self: Learn to Write Autobiographical Remarks from Wittgenstein / Wittgenstein Reads K rnberger / Trakl s Tone: Mood and the Distinctive Speech Act of the Demonstrative / The Chimera of Language? Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein / Well-Versed: Wittgenstein and Leavis Read Empson / The contributors of the volume -- Index of Names. |