A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein

by Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen
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ISBN: 9780226677156
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Recasting the significance of Wittgenstein's early philosophy for studies in literary modernism, as well as its afterlife in contemporary literature, A Different Order of Difficulty reveals the preoccupations his ideas share with his modernist contemporaries: an attention to the varieties of spiritual experience, an investment in age-old questions of life's meaning, and a yearning for transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world.

Putting Wittgenstein in dialogue with modernism, Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl reads key works by Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee within the framework of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, as well as in light of his contemporaneous writings and recent critical thinking about his philosophy. She breaks with standard approaches to the Tractatus, interpreting it not as a theory of logic or metaphysics, but as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle. This text, she shows, is a medium for an unorthodox brand of ethical instruction geared at engaging readers in the therapeutic clarification Wittgenstein saw as philosophy's true work. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as a philosophical modernist and the different orders of modernism's trademark difficulty, this book is a compelling addition to studies of both Wittgenstein and modernist literature.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen
  • ISBN: 9780226677156
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.80
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 2020

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