Wittgenstein & Modernism LeMahieu Zumhagen-Yekple Beckett Joyce Benjamin Kafka
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Wittgenstein & Modernism LeMahieu Zumhagen-Yekple Beckett Joyce Benjamin Kafka. "Wittgenstein and Modernism is a model of its genre, a collection of thought-provoking essays bound together with LeMahieu and Zumhagen-Yekplé's richly insightful introduction. Editors LeMahieu, Zumhagen-Yekplé. WITTGENSTEIN & MODERNISM Edited by Michael LeMahieu and Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé Philosophy as Poetry "Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." So declared Ludwig Wittgenstein, who even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary." But few books have followed up on these claims. This is the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism—the twentieth century's predominant cultural and artistic movement—and Wittgenstein, one of its preeminent and most enduring philosophers. Wittgenstein in Dialogue With Modernism: Beckett • Bellow • Benjamin — Existential silence, private language, pure realism Henry James • Joyce • Kafka — Sacred Fount aesthetics, Bloom's "Ithaca," ethics & literature Adolf Loos • Musil — Modernist architecture, recovery of human life Tractatus as Modernist Form — Numbered propositions as virtuoso performance Form & Medium — Wittgenstein's metaphoric use of religion, music, photography Aesthetic ↔ Ethical — How W and modernist writers negotiated their relationship Contributors from philosophy and literary studies explore how Wittgenstein's philosophy enacts or embodies, alternately or simultaneously, modernism as an historical period, an aesthetic style, and a philosophical worldview. The book offers an important bridge across the disciplinary divides that have kept us from a fuller picture of both Wittgenstein and the larger intellectual and cultural movement of which he was a part. "Wittgenstein and Modernism is a model of its genre, a collection of thought-provoking essays bound together with LeMahieu and Zumhagen-Yekplé's richly insightful introduction. As the volume progresses, its central themes resonate and find variations in sinuous interworkings. We move from the European context of Wittgenstein's life, to the scope of his influence from his Cambridge base outward to broader intellectual circles, and on to the many interrelations between his work and modernist literature. The result is a book that will be of wide use: for scholars of Wittgenstein, it will immediately take its place as a benchmark contribution." —Garry L. Hagberg, author of Describing Ourselves CONDITION: G (Ex-Library) Editors LeMahieu, Zumhagen-Yekplé Publisher University of Chicago Press Year 2017 Pages 308 pages Format Hardcover Star Contributors Charles Altieri (UC Berkeley) • Marjorie Perloff (Stanford) • Allan Janik (Vienna) • John Gibson (Louisville) + 7 more scholars 11 Essays W & Modernism in Literature (Cascardi) W, Christianity, Modernist Ethos (Perloff) Expression in Arts (Altieri) W, Loos, Critical Modernism (Janik) What Makes Poem Philosophical (Gibson) Bloom's "Ithaca" & Tractatus (Zumhagen-Y) W & Kafka (Ong) + 4 more Three Parts Part I: Context Wittgenstein's Modernist Context Groundbreaking change in music, art, aesthetics, literature, theology, philosophy Part II: Cultures Wittgenstein's Modernist Cultures Figures who altered modernist architectural, poetic, photographic landscape Part III: Literature Wittgenstein & Literary Modernism Authors who define high or late modernist literature Why This Book Matters "What emerges from the volume is the consistency with which Wittgenstein was, at bottom, an aesthetic thinker." First collection on Wittgenstein & modernism Brings philosophy & literary studies into dialogue Benchmark contribution for W scholars U Chicago Press 2017, 11 essays ✓ Condition: G (Good) - Ex-Library, Hardcover 2017 This is an ex-library hardcover copy in good condition. ✓ Binding: Tight ✓ Pages: Clean, crisp—no writing/highlighting ⚠ Dust jacket: Missing (ex-library) ✓ Overall: Excellent condition otherwise Please examine photos. A solid ex-library copy of this benchmark volume. 📦 SHIPPING: Will be shipped carefully and quickly the same or next business day ▸ LISTED BY JT ENTERPORTALS ▸ ~ Wittgenstein • Modernism • Philosophy as Poetry ~ >>Powered by WonderLister App
