Wittgenstein as Exile

A philosophical topography

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ID8858686
AutoresMichael A Peters (0000-0002-1482-2975, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume40
Fascículo5
Páginas591-605
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00448.x
OpenAlexW2138975055
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas18

This paper argues that Wittgenstein considered himself an exile and indeed was a self-imposed exile from his native Vienna; that this condition of exile is important for understanding Wittgenstein the man and his philosophy; and that exile as a condition has become both a central characteristic condition of late modernity (as much as alienation was for the era of industrial capitalism) and emblematic of literary modernism. The paper employs the notion of `exhilic thought' as a central trope for understanding Wittgenstein and the topography or geography of his thought and suggests that philosophy might begin to recognize more fully the significance of location and place in order to come to terms internationalization, multiculturalism and globalization, and with postmodern notions of subjectivity that embrace aspects of the condition of being an exile

Aesthetics · Alienation · Capitalism · Epistemology · Globalization · Modernism (music · Modernity · Order (exchange · Political science · Postmodernism · Sociology · Subjectivity · Trope (literature · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Translation Studies and Practices · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications

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