"Argues that the philosopher's design and construction of a house in Vienna is linked to spatial concepts in his philosophy of language."—The Chronicle of Higher Education

“A strikingly brilliant and lucid piece of work. Last shows how Wittgenstein’s entanglements of philosophy and architecture become the necessary prologue to his accomplishment in the Investigations. Wittgenstein’s House takes what is often considered a marginal or extraneous interlude in his work and demonstrates how it in fact forms the indispensable pivot of a major reorientation in Wittgenstein’s thought.”—Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University