The Character of a Name: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Shakespeare

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Being Lost and Finding Home: Philosophy, Confession, Recollection, and Conversion in Augustine’s Confessions and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations 5
6. The Character of a Name: Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Shakespeare 23
7. To Not Understand, but Not Misunderstand: Wittgenstein on Shakespeare 39
8. Sense and Sententiousness: Wittgenstein, Milton, Shakespeare 55
9. Why the Tractatus, like the Old Testament, is “Nothing but a Book” 75
10. Wittgenstein Lights Lichtenberg’s Candle: Flashlights of Enlightenment in Wittgenstein’s Thought 103
11. Wittgenstein and Goethe: Getting Rid of “Sorge” 115
12. Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Conservative Legacy of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy 137
13. Best Readings: Wittgenstein and Grillparzer 153
14. Wittgenstein’s Reception of Wagner: Language, Music, and Culture 171
15. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilhelm Busch: “Humour is not a mood, but a ‘Weltanschauung’” 197
16. Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky 227
17. Wittgenstein Re-Reading 243
18. The Significance of Dostoevsky (and Ludwig Anzengruber) for Wittgenstein 263
19. A Remarkable Fact: Wittgenstein Reading Tolstoy 289
20. Note to Self: Learn to Write Autobiographical Remarks from Wittgenstein 319
21. Wittgenstein Reads Kürnberger 335
22. Trakl’s Tone: Mood and the Distinctive Speech Act of the Demonstrative 355
23. The Chimera of Language? Karl Kraus and Ludwig Wittgenstein 373
24. Well-Versed: Wittgenstein and Leavis Read Empson 389
25. The contributors of the volume 403
26. Index of Names 409