Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on December 4, 2007
Literary Imagination 2008 10(1):96-101; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm124
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Wittgenstein and Lyric Subjectivity
*The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Wittgenstein is almost unique among philosophers in the so-called analytic tradition in being of interest to people outside the discipline of academic philosophy, a writer of influence to people engaged in a wide variety of intellectual and creative studies and pursuits. Modernist and postmodernist artists and writers in particular have found him to be a figure of fascination. In the visual arts one thinks of Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman and the younger Peter Wegner, not to mention the exemplary work of modernist architecture, the Kundmanngasee house, Wittgenstein himself designed for his sister Gretl. And Marjorie Perloff, in her seminal book Wittgenstein's Ladder, has brought out affinities between his work and that of a host of canonical modernist writers, including Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Ingborg Bachmann, Robert Creeley and the poets and writers of the Oulipo and Language Poetry movements.
What are some of the aspects of Wittgenstein's