Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Condition:Good Dahlia Barr is a brash

Dahlia Barr is a brash and successful Israeli attorney whose life’s work is defending Palestinians accused of terrorism

52 (2006-2007) Issues 1 - 13

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

From the playful visuals of “The Lego Codes” to the hysterical “Great Schlep” starring Sarah Silverman

Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Condition:Good Dahlia Barr is a brashMarjorie 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