Wittgenstein as Exile

A philosophical topography

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ID8858686
AuthorsMichael A Peters (0000-0002-1482-2975, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume40
Issue5
Pages591-605
Publication date2008-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00448.x
OpenAlexW2138975055
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

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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