Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism

In the last half-century Ludwig Wittgenstein''s relevance beyond analytic philosophy, to continental philosophy, to cultural studies, and to the arts has been widely acknowledged.

Wittgenstein''s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was published in 1922 - the annus mirabilis of modernism - alongside Joyce''s Ulysses, Eliot''s The Waste Land, Mansfield''s The Garden Party and Woolf''s Jacob''s Room. Be...