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A Different Order of Difficulty - Literature after Wittgenstein (Hardcover)
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A Different Order of Difficulty - Literature after Wittgenstein (Hardcover)
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Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or
can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen
Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute"
program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed
to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification
Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this
light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more
than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time,
Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in
varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old
questions about life's meaning, and in the possibility of
transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In
a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekple shows how Kafka,
Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new
way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as
philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his
indirect teaching, A Different Order of Difficulty is a compelling
addition to studies in both literature and philosophy.
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