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Wittgenstein's House
Language, Space, Architecture
Nana Last
$55.00
ISBN: 9780823228805 Book (Hardcover) Fordham University Press 176 pages 16 black and white illustrations May 2008
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"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 Wittgenstein’s House reads his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an
experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of
the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of
architecture occupies not just a historical position between Wittgenstein’s
early and late philosophy but a conceptual position as well, the book
demonstrates that Wittgenstein’s practice of architecture constitutes a
fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language
from its early to late phases.
The book advances the radical proposition that the field in which
architecture and philosophy operate includes linguistic and spatial
practices. It develops innovative forms of interdisciplinary analyses to
demonstrate that the philosophical positions put forth by Wittgenstein’s
two main works are literally unthinkable outside of their respective
conceptions of space: the view from above in the early work and the
view from within constructed by the late work.
| NANA LAST is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University. |
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