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Wittgenstein and Modernism
Michael Lemahieu
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Description for Wittgenstein and Modernism
Paperback. Editor(s): LeMahieu, Michael; Zumhagen-Yekple, Karen. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have really followed up on these claims, and fewer still have focused on their relation to the special literary and artistic period in which Wittgenstein worked. This book offers the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism the twentieth century's predominant cultural and artistic movement and Wittgenstein, one of its preeminent and most enduring philosophers. In doing so it offers ... Read more
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have really followed up on these claims, and fewer still have focused on their relation to the special literary and artistic period in which Wittgenstein worked. This book offers the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism the twentieth century's predominant cultural and artistic movement and Wittgenstein, one of its preeminent and most enduring philosophers. In doing so it offers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226420400
SKU
V9780226420400
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About Michael Lemahieu
Michael LeMahieu is associate professor of English at Clemson University and coeditor of the journal Contemporary Literature. He is the author of Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945 1975. Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl is assistant professor of English and an affiliated faculty member in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the ... Read more
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