Self-understanding in the Tractatus and Wittgenstein’s Architecture: From Adolf Loos to the Resolute Reading

Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
1: The Kundmanngasse and Its Significance
	1.1	 Introduction
	1.2	 The Kundmanngasse: History and Reception
	1.3	 Literature Review: Architectural Approach
	1.4	 Literature Review: Philosophical Approach
		1.4.1	 The Kundmanngasse and Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
		1.4.2	 The Kundmanngasse as a “Silent” Continuation of the Tractatus
		1.4.3	 The Kundmanngasse as Tractarian Architecture
		1.4.4	 The Kundmanngasse’s Ethical Significance
	Bibliography
2: An Underappreciated Analogy from Diktat für Schlick
	2.1	 From the Diktat to the Tractatus
		2.1.1	 Two Kinds of Mental Disquiet
		2.1.2	 Wittgenstein on Driesch and Heidegger
		2.1.3	 Mysticism and Metaphysics
	2.2	 Inarticulate Sounds as Nonsense
		2.2.1	 ‘Artikuliert’ and ‘Gegliedert’ in the Tractatus
		2.2.2	 Nonsense and Equivocation
	2.3	 Ornament and Nonsense
		2.3.1	 Main Aspects of the Analogy
		2.3.2	 Tractarian Architecture and Ringstraßenstil
		2.3.3	 Rejecting the Superfluous: From Wittgenstein to Loos
	Bibliography
3: Loos on Ornaments
	3.1	 Two Problems for Loos’s Remarks on Ornaments
		3.1.1	 Practical Contradictions and Lack of Explanatory Power
		3.1.2	 Searching for a Loosian Definition of ‘Ornament’
		3.1.3	 Three Interpretative Strategies
	3.2	 Loos’s Cultural Criticism in Context
		3.2.1	 Loos Against Historicism and Jugendstil
		3.2.2	 Art, Architecture, and Crime
		3.2.3	 ‘Ornament’ as a Means to an End
	3.3	 The Looshaus Reconsidered
	Bibliography
4: Nonsense in the Tractatus
	4.1	 Two Problems for Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Nonsense
	4.2	 Interpretative Strategies
		4.2.1	 Two Strategies: Neurath-Carnap and Traditional Readings
		4.2.2	 Third Strategy: Resolute Reading
	4.3	 Vindicating the Analogy
		4.3.1	 The Tractatus in Light of the Analogy
		4.3.2	 Reconsidering the Main Aspects of the Analogy
		4.3.3	 Loos and Wittgenstein as “Creative Separators”
	Bibliography
5: Wittgenstein on Architecture and the Kundmanngasse
	5.1	 Good Periods, Bad Periods
		5.1.1	 Culture and Civilization
		5.1.2	 Some Notes on Spengler’s Influence
	5.2	 Architecture and Functional Buildings
		5.2.1	 A Gesture of Glorification and Immortalization
		5.2.2	 Functional Buildings
	5.3	 The Kundmanngasse as a Functional Building
		5.3.1	 A Modern Palais for Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
		5.3.2	 The Kundmanngasse in Light of Its Function
		5.3.3	 “The Product of a Decidedly Sensitive Ear”
	Bibliography
6: Functionalism and Self-Understanding
	6.1	 Loos and Wittgenstein as Functionalists
		6.1.1	 Loos’s “Poor Little Rich Man”
		6.1.2	 Program, Function, and Use
		6.1.3	 Functionalism as Self-Reflective Architecture
		6.1.4	 A Note on Wittgenstein’s Intellectual Relationship with Loos
	6.2	 Conclusion: The Kundmanngasse and the Tractatus as “Work on Oneself”
	Bibliography
Index