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1 online resource |
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Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism |
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Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Series Preface; Introduction: Giving the Viewer an Idea of the Landscape; Part 1 -- Conceptualizing Wittgenstein; Chapter 1 Language, Expressibility and the Mystical; 1 Mysticism: Philosophical and anti-philosophical; 2 What can and cannot be said; 3 Existence, safety and guilt; 4 The ascetic ideal; 5 Culture and civilization; 6 Wittgenstein and modernism; Chapter 2 Modernism and Philosophical Language: Phenomenology, Wittgenstein and the Everyday; 1 Phenomenology as modernism |
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2 The early Wittgenstein's reconfiguration of philosophical language3 The later Wittgenstein: Completing the departure; Chapter 3 Wittgenstein and 'Ordinary Language Philosophy'; 1 The early Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn; 2 The turn towards actual linguistic practice; 3 'Ordinary language philosophy'; 4 Philosophy and ordinary language; 5 Philosophy, logical analysis and formal logic; 6 Philosophy and metaphysics; 7 The nature of philosophy; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Wittgenstein's Modernist Political Philosophy |
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1 Wittgenstein's philosophy of meaning as the foundation of conservatism, socialism and liberalism2 Wittgenstein's anti-political absolute ethics; 3 Particularism, therapeutic Wittgenstein and politics; 4 Wittgenstein's modernist transformation of the progressive project of enlightenment; Chapter 5 Too Cavellian a Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein's Certainty, Cavell's Scepticism; 1 Tractarian language and silence; 2 The estrangement of the ordinary; 3 Language is in order as it is; 4 The disappointment with criteria; 5 Certainty versus sceptical acknowledgement |
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Part 2 -- Wittgenstein and AestheticsChapter 6 Wittgenstein, Musil and the Austrian Modernism; 1 Wittgenstein and Austrian modernism; 2 Historicism and avant-garde in Musil's novel; 3 Feeling alienated from modernism and modernity; 4 The problem of culture; Chapter 7 'We Should be Seeing Life Itself': Back to the Rough Ground of the Stage; 1 The everyday on stage -- Michael Fried's interpretation; 2 Dramatics of the language-game: The uses of the theatrical stage; Chapter 8 A Confluence of Modernisms: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigation and Henry James's Literary Language; 1; 2; 3 |
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45; Chapter 9 Modernism with Spirit: Wittgenstein and the Sense of the Whole; 1 Wittgenstein's double orientation in music; 2 'What is modern?' -- An architectural question in Vienna between the two wars; 3 Formalism and modernism: Eduard Hanslick's 'sound-forms in movement'; 4 From sentimental feeling towards expressivity of meaning: A modern step; 5 Wittgenstein's 'anti-modernist' tone in 1930: The lack of 'the sense of the whole'; 6 Spirit in what sense? Life and language; 7 'Musikalische Gedanke': Wittgenstein and Schoenberg, a methodological affinity |
| Summary |
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 fast |
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Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism
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Literary theory.
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Literary studies: general.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matar, Anat, 1956- editor.
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| LC no. |
2016035444 |
| ISBN |
9781501302459 |
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1501302450 |
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9781501302466 |
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1501302469 |
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