Abstract

The purpose of this book is to show how Wittgenstein's work, early and late, is relevant to aesthetics and to show how art provides "an experience not to be obtained by any other activity: it shows the meaning of life". The book is interesting because it relates the early and later Wittgenstein to a topic not typically treated by Wittgenstein scholars--art and the aesthetic--and because it tries to reinterpret some of the Tractatus in light of the Philosophical Investigations without losing a kernel of truth in the early work.