Course Description:
Wittgenstein was interested in literature and the arts. Few courses venture into this side of Wittgenstein, but it is rewarding and casts light on literature, culture and the human spirit. The seminar will review Wittgenstein’s early and late thought, then explore his relationship to literature and the arts. (1) Wittgenstein’s works as literary, (2) Wittgenstein’s views vis-a-vis modernism (early thought) and post-modernism (late thought), 3) Wittgenstein and culture, 4) Wittgenstein and ethics and religion, 5) Wittgenstein and music, 6) Wittgenstein and art and architecture, 7) Wittgenstein and photography, 8) Wittgenstein in literature and film, 9) Wittgenstein and Beckett