A Different Order of Difficulty : Literature after Wittgenstein
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
022667715X
ISBN-13
9780226677156
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
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University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 5th, 2020
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
510 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 2.20 cms
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Literature: history & criticismPhilosophyPhilosophy: aestheticsHistory of ideas
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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-Yekplé 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-Yekplé 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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