Description: Dialectic of the Ladder : Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and Modernism, Hardcover by Ware, Ben, ISBN 1472591402, ISBN-13 9781472591401, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.
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Book Title: Dialectic of the Ladder : Wittgenstein, the Tractatus and Moderni
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Dialectic of the Ladder : Wittgenstein, the 'tractatus' and Modernism
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Civilization, Individual Philosophers, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Logic
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Author: Ben Ware
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, History
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
