Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture [Hardcover]

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Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Fordham University Press (July 29 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823228800
ISBN-13: 978-0823228805
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 476 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #906,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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. . . An interesting and thought-provoking work, one that adds to the corpus of writings on Wittgenstein's ideas about architecture and aesthetics.

...sheds light on the architectural experiences that led Wittgenstein from an account of language emanating from a...paranormal perspective...to an interior view of language.-Christopher C. Robinson

A noteworthy synthesis of Wittgenstein's philosophy with the subject of architecture.

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Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's 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.

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