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Book SynopsisArguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Stonborough-Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, this 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.
Trade Review"This book opens new and unexpected vistas into the complex landscape - or perhaps I should say the complex architecture and spatiality - of Wittgenstein's philosophy. In that sense, it makes an important, dual contribution to the history of philosophy and to the history of modern architecture." -- -Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology " ... An interesting and thought-provoking work, one that adds to the corpus of writings on Wittgenstein's ideas about architecture and aesthetics." -Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics "Accessible...Brings forward the virtues of applied abstraction through keen and historical treatment of both the writings and the Stonborough project." -- -Tom Conley Harvard University "A strikingly brilliant and lucid piece of work. Last shows how Wittgenstein's entanglements of philosophy and architecture become the necessary prologue to his accomplishment in the Investigations. Wittgenstein's House takes what is often considered a marginal or extraneous interlude in his work and demonstrates how it in fact forms the indispensable pivot of a major reorientation in Wittgenstein's thought." -- -Bruce Clarke Texas Tech University " ... Reveals heretofore unseen and unsuspected edifying relations between architecture and philosophy and their distinctive ways of seeing and thinking." -Postmodern Culture "A noteworthy synthesis of Wittgenstein's philosophy with the subject of architecture." -wittgenstein-news.org
