A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen

A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher...
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Author: Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
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A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen

A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein

$122.70

A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein

$122.70
Author: Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time, Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old questions about life's meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekpl shows how Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his indirect teaching, A Different Order of Difficulty is a compelling addition to studies in both literature and philosophy.

Author: Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03/05/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780226677156

About the Author
Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé is associate professor of English at Tulane University.


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