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Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
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Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
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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.
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