Wittgenstein Reading (eBook)

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Sascha Bru, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium; Daniel Steuer, University of Brighton, England; Wolfgang Huemer, University of Parma, Italy.

List of Abbreviations 7
Introduction 11
Being Lost and Finding Home: Philosophy, Confession, Recollection, and Conversion in Augustine’s Confessions and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations 15
The Character of a Name: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Shakespeare 33
To Not Understand, but Not Misunderstand: Wittgenstein on Shakespeare 49
Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare 65
Why the Tractatus, like the Old Testament, is “Nothing but a Book” 85
Wittgenstein Lights Lichtenberg’s Candle: Flashlights of Enlightenment in Wittgenstein’s Thought 113
Wittgenstein and Goethe: Getting Rid of “Sorge” 125
Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Conservative Legacy of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy 147
Best Readings: Wittgenstein and Grillparzer 163
Wittgenstein’s Reception of Wagner: Language, Music, and Culture 181
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilhelm Busch: “Humour is not a mood, but a ‘Weltanschauung’” 207
Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky 237
Wittgenstein Re-Reading 253
The Significance of Dostoevsky (and Ludwig Anzengruber) for Wittgenstein 273
A Remarkable Fact: Wittgenstein Reading Tolstoy 299
Note to Self: Learn to Write Autobiographical Remarks from Wittgenstein 329
Wittgenstein Reads Kürnberger 345
Trakl’s Tone: Mood and the Distinctive Speech Act of the Demonstrative 365
The Chimera of Language? Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein 383
Well-Versed: Wittgenstein and Leavis Read Empson 399
The contributors of the volume 413
Index of Names 419