Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Bisexual Book Awards for Speculative Fiction (2020) a fellow traveler

a fellow traveler

Two weeks after losing her husband

David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering

Author: Professor Michel Serres

and yet he is still moved by the majesty of the great Eka Dasa Rudra ceremony

Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Bisexual Book Awards for Speculative Fiction (2020) a fellow travelerMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but