Dialectic of the Ladder
Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism
Seiten
2015
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-9140-1 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-9140-1 (ISBN)
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein’s early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate ‘ineffable’ truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain ‘illusions of thought’; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character.
By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work’s ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein’s writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.
By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work’s ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein’s writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.
Ben Ware is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
1 Modernity-Modernism-Avant-Garde
2 Ethics and the Literary in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
3 Modernity, Culture and the Question of Politics
4 The Tractatus, Modernism and the Limits of Language
5 Towards a Literary Use of Wittgenstein: The Tractatus
and Kafka’s ‘Der Bau’
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2015 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4725-9140-2 / 1472591402 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-9140-1 / 9781472591401 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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