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Wittgenstein in Exile (Paperback)
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Wittgenstein in Exile (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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A new way of looking at Wittgenstein: as an exile from an earlier
cultural era. Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are among the most
influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also
among the most perplexing. Wittgenstein warned again and again that
he was not and would not be understood. Moreover, Wittgenstein's
work seems to have little relevance to the way philosophy is done
today. In Wittgenstein in Exile, James Klagge proposes a new way of
looking at Wittgenstein-as an exile-that helps make sense of this.
Wittgenstein's exile was not, despite his wanderings from Vienna to
Cambridge to Norway to Ireland, strictly geographical; rather,
Klagge argues, Wittgenstein was never at home in the twentieth
century. He was in exile from an earlier era-Oswald Spengler's
culture of the early nineteenth century. Klagge draws on the full
range of evidence, including Wittgenstein's published work, the
complete Nachlass, correspondence, lectures, and conversations. He
places Wittgenstein's work in a broad context, along a trajectory
of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky. Yet Klagge
also writes from an analytic philosophical perspective, discussing
such topics as essentialism, private experience, relativism,
causation, and eliminativism. Once we see Wittgenstein's exile,
Klagge argues, we will gain a better appreciation of the difficulty
of understanding Wittgenstein and his work.
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