Carla Carmona Escalera Boeken

This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker. With others, including Freud, Viktor Adler, and Arnold Schoenberg, he forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, the book is superbly realized; it is even better as a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin have acted on a striking premise: an understanding of prewar Vienna, Wittgenstein s native city, will make it easier to comprehend both his work and our own problems .This is an independent work containing much that is challenging, new, and useful. New York Times Book Review."

En este sugerente ensayo, Carla Carmona trata de reflejar la visión del mundo del pintor Egon Schiele destacando las relaciones de parentesco que se dan entre su obra y la de algunos de sus contemporáneos, principalmente Wittgenstein y Trakl. Asimismo, intenta esclarecer su gramática, en la medida en que el artista participó de la crisis del lenguaje característica de la Viena finisecular, aspecto generalmente negligido cuando se le cataloga expeditivamente de expresionista. Un libro iluminador sobre un momento fundamental de la cultura europea contemporánea.