Receiving Ludwig Wittgenstein

Recent years have seen studies of Wittgenstein expanding in three distinct directions under three kinds of impulse. First, the publication up into the 1970s of his posthumous papers as books has provided ample material for renewed complications in all areas of discussion among philosophers specializing in his work. Second, the growing field of literary theory has given a larger circle of scholars an interest in exploring him for ideas which may be applied in their readings of literature. Third, the question arises of how he can be brought into the debates on French poststructuralism and more specifically on the writings of Jacques Derrida. A recent special issue on Wittgenstein of New Literary History' has made these concerns very clear, especially in the exchange between John M. Ellis and Henry Staten

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