Wittgenstein's Ladder
Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
306 pages, 16 halftones 6 x 8-1/4
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1996
Cloth $27.95
ISBN: 9780226660585
Published October 1996
Paper $16.00
ISBN: 9780226660608
Published March 1999
Related links: Read a short excerpt from the introduction.
Or read the entire introduction on Perloff's home page.
Illustrations
Abbreviations for Works by Wittgenstein
Preface
Introduction
1: The Making of the Tractatus: Russell, Wittgenstein, and the "Logic" of War
2: The "Synopsis of Trivialities": The Art of the Philosophical Investigations
3: "Grammar in Use": Wittgenstein/Gertrude Stein/Marinetti
4: Witt-Watt: The Language of Resistance/The Resistance of Language
5: Border Games: The Wittgenstein Fictions of Thomas Bernhard and Ingeborg Bachmann
6: "Running Against the Walls of Our Cage": Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics
Coda: "Writing Through" Wittgenstein with Joseph Kosuth
Notes
Index
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