Wittgenstein Fiction

Name: Wittgenstein Fiction
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Portrayals of Ludwig Wittgenstein in Contemporary Western Novels

By: Walker Zupp

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Paperback | 1 March 2025

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128 Pages

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21.6 x 14.0

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In this new book, Walker Zupp demonstrates the need to reevaluate the connection between Ludwig Wittgenstein?s philosophy and the extraordinary life that he led, and how the best way to do this, ironically, is by examining novels whose central characters were inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein?s persona. In Wittgenstein Fiction, Zupp offers comprehensive biographical cross-sections of novels by Thomas Bernhard, Bruce Duffy and Lars Iyer in an attempt to define the genre of Wittgenstein Fiction for the very first time. He argues that Wittgenstein Fiction satirizes the empirical world and the contemporary university, and that authors who work in this genre have to re-create themselves, to some extent, in the form of their fictional Wittgenstein characters, so that fictional biographies of Wittgenstein become strange autobiographies of the authors themselves. ?

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Focusing on the peculiar and well-populated genre of Wittgenstein Fiction, Walker Zupp explores the novel's capacity to perform its own Philosophical Investigations even as it stands outside philosophy investigating its philosophers themselves. Central to the author's many provocative insights is that - paradoxically as the Tractatus' proposition 7 - the nearer a fictional depiction aligns with the historical record, the less room remains for novel interpretation of Wittgenstein's life and thought.

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