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Understanding Wittgenstein, understanding modernism
- Title
- Understanding Wittgenstein, understanding modernism / edited by Anat Matar.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Matar, Anat, 1956-
- Description
- xv, 270 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism
- Uniform Title
- Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Conceptualizing Wittgenstein -- Wittgenstein and aesthetics -- Glossary.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3099
- ISBN
- 9781501302435
- 1501302434
- LCCN
- 2016029682
- OCLC
- 946903259
- Title
- Understanding Wittgenstein, understanding modernism / edited by Anat Matar.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Understanding philosophy, understanding modernismUnderstanding philosophy, understanding modernism.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Matar, Anat, 1956- editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Understanding Wittgenstein, understanding modernism. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781501302442 (DLC) 2016035444
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3099