Wittgenstein's House
Title | Wittgenstein's House PDF eBook |
Author | Nana Last |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0823228800 |
"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 later work."--BOOK JACKET.
The Wittgenstein House
Title | The Wittgenstein House PDF eBook |
Author | Bernhard Leitner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2000-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Related to author's Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1973.
The House of Wittgenstein
Title | The House of Wittgenstein PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Waugh |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0747596735 |
The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic family.
Mysticism and Architecture
Title | Mysticism and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Paden |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780739115626 |
Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough is a multi-disciplinary study of the Viennese palais that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein helped design and build for his sister shortly after he abandoned philosophy for more practical activities and during the period that supposedly separates his 'early' from his 'late' philosophy. Weaving together discussions of a number of social, political, and cultural developments that helped to give fin-de-si_cle Vienna its character -- including the late modernization of Austrian society, industry, and economy; the construction of Vienna's Ringstrasse; the slow decay of the Hapsburg monarchy; and the failure of Austrian liberalism; as well as Tolstoy's religiously-based ethical views; Adolf Loos's critique of architectural ornament; Karl Kraus's analysis of Vienna's decadence; Kierkegaard's and Nestroy's views on the importance of indirect communication; Otto Weininger's theory of the nature and duty of genius; Camillo Sitte and Otto Wagner's dispute over good urban form; Schopenhauer's aesthetic theories and his 'Eastern' philosophy of life; and Russell and Frege's philosophical and logical theories -- the book presents a philosophical biography of Wittgenstein reminiscent of, but substantially different from, Janik and Toulmin's Wittgenstein's Vienna. This philosophical biography underpins a new interpretation of the house which argues that the house belongs to neither architectural Modernism, nor Postmodernism, but is instead caught between those two movements. This analysis of the house, in turn, grounds a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's philosophical works that emphasizes their mystical nature and practical purpose. Finally, this interpretation shows the unity of these works while simultaneously suggesting an underlying flaw; namely, that they arise from two fundamentally-opposed worldviews present in Vienna during Wittgenstein's youth, 'aesthetic modernism' and 'critical modernism.'
Architecture Language Critique
Title | Architecture Language Critique PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2021-10-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004458360 |
Paul Engelmann was Adolf Loos’s favorite pupil, private secretary to Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most important interlocutor in the years between 1916 and 1928 as well as his partner in building the Stonborough House. Thus it was that the trenchant critique of modernity associated with Wittgenstein’s Vienna originated around Paul Engelmann. The present volume of essays from an international symposium in Aarhus, Denmark in 1999 offers an interdisciplinary perspective on issues bearing upon architecture, language and cultural criticism as they relate to the life’s work of Paul Engelmann.
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Sluga |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 110712025X |
Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.
Wittgenstein's Vienna
Title | Wittgenstein's Vienna PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Janik |
Publisher | Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781566631327 |
This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de si cle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker. With others, including Freud, Viktor Adler, and Arnold Schoenberg, he forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, the book is superbly realized; it is even better as a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. "Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin have acted on a striking premise: an understanding of prewar Vienna, Wittgenstein's native city, will make it easier to comprehend both his work and our own problems....This is an independent work containing much that is challenging, new, and useful."--New York Times Book Review.