Wittgenstein Reading / / ed. by Sascha Bru, Daniel Steuer, Wolfgang Huemer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Affeldt, Steven G.,; Altieri, Charles,; Barker, Andrew,; Bru, Sascha,; Burns, Steven,; Davies, Paul,; Day, William,; Evans, K. L.,; Hagberg, Garry L.,; Huemer, Wolfgang,; Kienzler, Wolfgang,; LaRocca, David,; Lamb, Julian,; McGuinness, Brian,; Ribeiro, António Sousa,; Rothhaupt, Josef G. F.,; Somavilla, Ilse,; Steuer, Daniel,; Szabados, Béla,; Thaventhiran, Helen,; Van Dam, Elisabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Bru, Sascha,; Huemer, Wolfgang,; Steuer, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: On Wittgenstein , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)

Wittgenstein's thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors. Wittgenstein Reading approaches the moment of literature as a vehicle of self-reflection for Wittgenstein. What sounds, on the surface, like criticism (e.g. of Shakespeare) can equally be understood as a simple r...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Being Lost and Finding Home: Philosophy, Confession, Recollection, and Conversion in Augustine’s Confessions and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
• The Character of a Name: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Shakespeare
• To Not Understand, but Not Misunderstand: Wittgenstein on Shakespeare
• Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare
• Why the Tractatus, like the Old Testament, is “Nothing but a Book”
• Wittgenstein Lights Lichtenberg’s Candle: Flashlights of Enlightenment in Wittgenstein’s Thought
• Wittgenstein and Goethe: Getting Rid of “Sorge”
• Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Conservative Legacy of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
• Best Readings: Wittgenstein and Grillparzer
• Wittgenstein’s Reception of Wagner: Language, Music, and Culture
• Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilhelm Busch: “Humour is not a mood, but a ‘Weltanschauung’”
• Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky
• Wittgenstein Re-Reading
• The Significance of Dostoevsky (and Ludwig Anzengruber) for Wittgenstein
• A Remarkable Fact: Wittgenstein Reading Tolstoy
• Note to Self: Learn to Write Autobiographical Remarks from Wittgenstein
• Wittgenstein Reads Kürnberger
• Trakl’s Tone: Mood and the Distinctive Speech Act of the Demonstrative
• The Chimera of Language? Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Well-Versed: Wittgenstein and Leavis Read Empson
• The contributors of the volume
• Index of Names