Wittgenstein's House

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.

ISBN 0823228800   Pages 176 ISBN13 9780823228805 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Fordham University Press   Weight (grammes) 499 Imprint Fordham University Press   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 155 Publication date 15 Aug 2008   Width (mm) 231 Library of Congress 2008009121   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 192   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Figures
Introduction		Spatial Practices from Architecture to Philosophy		1
Pt. 1		Transgressions and Inhabitations
1		Transgressions		33
2		From Without to Within: The Building of Inhabitation		61
3		The Stonborough-Wittgenstein House		78
4		The Practice of Architecture		95
Pt. 2		Images of Entanglement
		Images of Entanglement		123
		Family Resemblance		125
		The Landscape of Language		136
		Nets and Webs		143
		Crystalline Purity		146
		Spatial Crises		149
		Labyrinths and Mazes		155
		Albums		161
		Surface Practices		168
		Boundaries		174
		Shared Territory		182
		Notes		191
		Selected Bibliography		201
		Index		205

"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"

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