{"id":574,"date":"2014-09-14T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/?p=574"},"modified":"2014-09-14T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T21:54:38","slug":"574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Excerpted from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/cgi-bin\/hfs.cgi\/00\/13049.ctl\">WITTGENSTEIN&#8217;S LADDER: POETIC LANGUAGE AND THE STRANGENESS OF THE ORDINARY<\/a>, by Marjorie Perloff <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-575\" src=\"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ladder-majorie-Perloff.jpeg\" alt=\"cover of majorie Perloff book\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" \/>published by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/\">University of Chicago Press<\/a>. Copyright \u00a9 1996 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8220;He who understands me,&#8221; says Wittgenstein on the final page of the\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">Tractatus<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, &#8220;finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it) . . . . then he sees the world rightly&#8221; (T #6.54). But no sooner is the world seen &#8220;rightly&#8221; than new obstacles appear which require new ladders. &#8220;Forcing my thoughts into an ordered sequence,&#8221; said Wittgenstein, &#8220;is a torment for me. Is it even worth attempting now?&#8221; (CV 28).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from\u00a0WITTGENSTEIN&#8217;S LADDER: POETIC LANGUAGE AND THE STRANGENESS OF THE ORDINARY, by Marjorie Perloff published by the\u00a0University of Chicago Press. Copyright \u00a9 1996 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. \u00a0&#8220;He who understands me,&#8221; says Wittgenstein on the final page of the\u00a0Tractatus, &#8220;finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless, when he has climbed out through &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/?p=574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladder","tag-qoute","tag-wittgenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brodskis.co.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}