Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Wittgenstein, Modernism, and the Contradictions of Writing Philosophy as Poetry 1
5. Part One. Wittgenstein’s Modernist Context
6. 1. Wittgenstein and Modernism in Literature: Between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations 23
7. 2. “To Become a Different Person”: Wittgenstein, Christianity, and the Modernist Ethos 41
8. 3. The Concept of Expression in the Arts from a Wittgensteinian Perspective 57
9. 4. Wittgenstein, Loos, and Critical Modernism: Style and Idea in Architecture and Philosophy 71
10. Part Two. Wittgenstein’s Modernist Cultures
11. 5. Loos, Musil, Wittgenstein, and the Recovery of Human Life 91
12. 6. Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Pure Realism 114
13. 7. What Makes a Poem Philosophical? 130
14. Part Three. Wittgenstein and Literary Modernism
15. 8. In the Condition of Modernism: Philosophy, Literature, and The Sacred Fount 153
16. 9. The World as Bloom Found It: “Ithaca,” the Tractatus, and “Looking More than Once for the Solution of Difficult Problems in Imaginary or Real Life” 176
17. 10. Lectures on Ethics: Wittgenstein and Kafka 206
18. 11. Bellow’s Private Language 231
19. Notes 255
20. Contributors 289
21. Index 293