Wittgenstein's Artillery av James C. Klagge

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<b>How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy.<br> </b><br><br>Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, "Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry." In <i>Wittgenstein''s Artillery</i>, James Klagge shows how, in search of ways to reach his audience, Wittgenstein tried a more poetic style of doing philosophy. Klagge argues that, deploying this new philosophical "artillery"--Klagge''s term for Wittgenstein''s methods of influencing his readers and students--Wittgenstein moved from an esoteric mode to an evangelical mode, aiming for an effect on his audience that was noncognitive, appealing to the temperament in addition to the intellect.<br><br> Wittgenstein was an artillery spotter--directing artillery fire to targets--in the Austrian army during World War I, and Klagge argues that, years later, he became a philosophical spotter, struggling to find the right artillery to accomplish his philosophical purpose.