Wittgenstein`s House – Language, Space, and Architecture Last Hardback

Wittgenstein's HouseLanguage, Space, and Architecture\nAuthor(s): Nana Last\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823228805, 978-0823228805\nSynopsis\nWittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, but a conceptual position as well, the book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases. \n The book advances the radical proposition that the field in which architecture and philosophy operate includes linguistic and spatial pr.