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Wittgenstein in Exile

Wittgenstein in Exile

Klagge, James C.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0262525909
ISBN13: 9780262525909
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 10 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.77 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
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.

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