A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein,New

A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein,New

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Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen ZumhagenYekpl makes a critical contribution to the resolute program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus as a complex, mocktheoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic selfclarification 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 ageold questions about lifes meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, ZumhagenYekpl 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.

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