https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/rss/books/su45_6RSS.xml The latest new books in Philosophy: Logic and Philosophy of Language en-us Fri, 04 Jun 2021 05:00:00 GMT 1440 https://ucp-qa.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo46479733.html Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl&eacute; makes a critical contribution to the “resolute” program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time, Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old questions about life’s meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekpl&eacute; shows how Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his indirect teaching, A Different Order of Difficulty is a compelling addition to studies in both literature and philosophy. Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekpl&eacute; makes a critical contribution to the &ldquo;resolute&rdquo; program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i> as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time, Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old questions about life&rsquo;s meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekpl&eacute; shows how Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his indirect teaching, <i>A Different Order of Difficulty</i> is a compelling addition to studies in both literature and philosophy. Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory Philosophy: Logic and Philosophy of Language Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:00:00 GMT Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé 9780226677019