Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Author: Anat Matar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134260091

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With a unique approach to the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy, this fascinating work addresses both analytic and continental philosophy, therefore ensuring its appeal to scholars from both fields.


Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

Author: James McElvenny

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1474425046

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This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.


Philosophy and Literary Modernism

Philosophy and Literary Modernism

Author: Robert P. McParland

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1527517845

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Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams, and Woolf, among others. Literary modernism engaged with explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.


The Decline of Modernism

The Decline of Modernism

Author: Peter Bürger

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780271008905

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In this book, the author addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century.


Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Author: Megan Quigley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-02

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 110708959X

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Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.


Wittgenstein and Modernism

Wittgenstein and Modernism

Author: Michael LeMahieu

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 022642040X

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Wittgenstein and Modernism is the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism, the 20th century s predominant cultural and artistic movement, and Wittgenstein, the most preeminent and enduring philosopher of the period. Although Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry, we have yet to fully consider how Wittgenstein s philosophy relates to the poetic, literary, and artistic production that exemplifies the modernist era in which he lived and worked. Featuring contributions from scholars of philosophy and literature, the contributors put Wittgenstein s writing in dialogue with work by poets and novelists (James, Woolf, Kafka, Musil, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Beckett, Bellow and Robinson) as well as philosophers and theorists (Karl Kraus, John Stuart Mill, Walter Benjamin, Michael Fried, Stanley Cavell). The volume illuminates two important aspects of Wittgenstein s work related to modernism and postmodernism: form and medium. Each of Wittgenstein s two major works not only advanced a revolutionary conception of philosophy, but also developed a revolutionary philosophical form to engage his readers in a mode of philosophical practice. As a whole this volume comprises an overarching argument about the importance of Wittgenstein for understanding modernism, and the importance of modernism for understanding Wittgenstein."


Modernism as a Philosophical Problem

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem

Author: Robert B. Pippin

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1999-10-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780631214137

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Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.


Weimar Modernism

Weimar Modernism

Author: David C. Durst

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780739110065

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In this work David C. Durst explores the development of modernism in the philosophy, politics, and culture of the first German Republic between 1918 and 1933. Through a reasoned critique of various Weimar intellectual figures such as Ernst Bloch, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, Durst offers clarity and insight into the various aesthetic postures of the interwar period. From the cultural vibrancy of the early Weimar period to the eventual decay towards fascism and Nazi rule, Weimar Modernism provides a new and coherent way to examine this important era, which has often been presented in a fragmented manner


Dialectic of the Ladder

Dialectic of the Ladder

Author: Ben Ware

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 135005092X

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.


Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Author: David Scott

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1628927704

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Michel Foucault remains to this day a thinker who stands unchallenged as one of the most important of the 20th century. Among the characteristics that have made him influential is his insistent blurring of the border separating philosophy and literature and art, carried out on the basis of his confronting the problem of modernism, which he characterizes as a permanent task. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries, which on their surface would seem not to have anything to do with literature, are full of allusions to modernist writers and artists like Mallarme, Baudelaire, Artaud, Klee, Borges, Broch-sometimes fleetingly, sometimes more extensively, as is the case with Foucault's life-long devotion to Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, and de Sade. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault's works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.