Wittgenstein in exile
By: James C. Klagge
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780262015349
Description: 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 this book, the author 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, the author 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: No one understands me; title: Can we understand Wittgenstein?; title: What is understanding?; title: Exile; title: Alienation or engagement; title: The work of exile; title: Philosophy and science; title: The evolution of an idea; title: Science and the mind; title: Das erlösende Wort; title: Wittgenstein in the 21st century.