Double Philosophy Bleg

This is pre-1999, but just in case, here’s one by a poet who is also a philosopher:
Jan Zwicky, Wittgenstein Elegies.
See http://www.collectionscanada.ca/9/12/p12-378-e.html

Gillian’s link doesn’t appear to work, and she beat me to it, but “here’s another”:http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=557&langid=1 .

David Foster Wallace’s first novel, The Broom of the System, I remember deals explicitly with Investigations themes (a character’s grandmother was a disciple of Wittgenstein). The book comes from about 89, so maybe it’s too early for you. Beyond that, I couldn’t tell you if the book itself really takes cues from Wittgenstein rather than just alluded to him: I read it years before I read any Wittgenstein. I think DFW has suggested that it does.

Bruce Duffy wrote a quite good novel about Wittgenstein, particularly focused around his relationships with Russell and Moore, called “The World As I Found It.” First published in 1987 though.

If yer looking for something more recent though, “Battlefield Earth” does brings to mind some of Ludwig’s thinking as much as it does Hubbard’s. Especially the bits about looking into the abyss and passing over in silence.

Also, William Connolly’s “Political Theory and Modernity” is a Nietzsche-centric account of modern developments in political theory, and isn’t too forbidding for undergraduates.

Nietzsche in the humanities? “Closing of the American Mind” by Bloom obviously!

Three from the contemporary art world:

Photographer Robert Bowen makes (computer-generated) landscapes out of various texts — Moby Dick, Allice in Wonderland, Finnegans’ Wake. He did one for Wittgenstein — the Tractauts, I believe. There is a page from the gallery where this series of his work was shown:
http://www.haimchanin.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_thumb_serene.htm
— I believe the LW image is the one in the top right-hand corner of the page (i.e. the third one).

From 1999, artist Tom Phillips (who did the astonishing book A HUMUMENT) did a sculpture (possibly part of a series?) called “Wittgenstein’s Dillemma”. You can read about it at his web site, here:
http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/sculptur/cubes/index.html

Finally, a bit earlier (1991) sculptor Joseph Kosuth did a sculpture No Number #6 which consists of the Wittgensteinian sentence “I am only describing language, not explaining anything” in blue neon letters. The sculture is in the permanent collection of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; you can read about it here:
http://www.mcachicago.org/search/detail.asp?ID=73

(Since it’s from 1988, I presume you know David Markson’s novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress. But looking for it at the Complete Review web site, I found four books about LW on the index page for W titles, three since 99 and most by non-philosophers. Surf over and check it out:

http://www.complete-review.com/maindex/alphat/W.htm

Home some of this helps,

SF

You’ll probably find this when you look up the other recommended Warren stuff, but:

Mark Warren’s “Nietzsche and Political Philosophy,” Political Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2. (May, 1985), pp. 183-212.

Nietzche had a profound influence on several students of modernity–but I believe his strongest influence was on Weber’s writings on religion.

When Weber writes about how rationality replaces enchantment I believe he is making a reference to Nietzche’s The Gay Science. Recall the scene when the madman who runs into the marketplace looking for God and is met with scorn and laughter. “Where is God” he screeches. “Well, I will tell you. We have killed him–you and I.” The marketplace is a metaphor for Western rationality. The marketplace and its accompanying cultural orientation–prices, rationalty, materialism–are the highpoint of secularism. Western man, pursing rational truth, discarded its original ordering schemes–egalitarianism, justice, heaven, God, good works–and given meaning and purpose to their lives for nihilism.

There was a short story in Granta a year or two ago — possibly in the Music issue — written from the perspective of Paul Wittgenstein, Ludwig’s brother. Ludwig was one of the characters in the story, if I remember correctly.

It’s possible that some of the pieces that Paul commissioned were influenced by Ludwig.

And there are these books:
Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
Wittgenstein’s Poker by ?
Correction by Thomas Bernhard

There’s a play called “The Fly-Bottle,” by David Egan, that deals with the poker-wielding incident. I saw it performed at Shakespeare & Co. in Lennox, MA, a year or two ago. (In addition to Wittgenstein, Popper & Russell also make appearances.)

David Owen’s Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason, is fairly heavy going. Wilhelm Hennis’ stuff I recall is quite heavy on the Nietzsche in Weber angle (as is Keith Tribe’s).