Wittgenstein Reading

Wittgenstein took literature extremely seriously and did not consider it of secondary importance compared with philosophy. Still academic philosophy often shies away from the literary inflection of his philosophy. Wittgenstein Reading is the first book to portray Wittgenstein as a reader, providing detailed discussions of his engagement with individual authors, such as Goethe, Shakespeare or Lewis Carroll. It thereby becomes an essential tool for the cultural contextualization of Wittgenstein's thought for both Wittgenstein scholars and scholars of literature.