{"product_id":"wittgenstein-in-exile-james-c-klagge-9780262525909","title":"Wittgenstein in Exile","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new way of looking at Wittgenstein: as an exile from an earlier cultural era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudwig Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e (1922) and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e (1953) are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among the most perplexing. 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 \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e, James Klagge 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, Klagge 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlagge draws on the full range of evidence, including Wittgenstein's published work, the complete Nachla , correspondence, lectures, and conversations. He places Wittgenstein's work in a broad context, along a trajectory of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky. Yet Klagge also writes from an analytic philosophical perspective, discussing such topics as essentialism, private experience, relativism, causation, and eliminativism. Once we see Wittgenstein's exile, Klagge argues, we will gain a better appreciation of the difficulty of understanding Wittgenstein and his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James C. Klagge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262525909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262525909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 5.77w x 0.48d","brand":"James C. Klagge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056712184063,"sku":"9780262525909","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c53cc33b-60ab-4e19-8559-3134e85bda81.jpg?v=1685042836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wittgenstein-in-exile-james-c-klagge-9780262525909","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}