Main entry:

Last, Nana.

Title & Author:

Wittgenstein's house : language, space, & architecture / Nana Last.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

Description:

xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index.
Introduction : Spatial practices from architecture to philosophy -- Transgressions -- From without to within : the building of inhabitation -- The Stonborough-Wittgenstein house -- The practice of architecture -- Images of entanglement -- Family resemblance -- The landscape of language -- Nets and webs -- Crystalline purity -- Spatial crises -- Labyrinths and mazes -- Albums -- Surface practices -- Boundaries -- Shared territory.

Summary:

"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 later work."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780823228805 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0823228800 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780823228812 (pbk.)
0823228819 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
Haus Wittgenstein (Vienna, Austria)
Haus Wittgenstein (Vienne, Autriche)
Haus Wittgenstein.
Architecture Philosophy.
Language and languages Philosophy.
Langage et langues Philosophie.
Architektur
Sprachphilosophie
Wien Wittgenstein-Haus.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Criticism and interpretation

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258078
Call No.: BIB 188674
Status: Available