Art in Progress, A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde
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Amsterdam University press
2003
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loginLudwig Wittgenstein’s foreword to his Philosophical Investigationsbegins witha motto borrowed from the nineteenth-century Austrian playwright andsatirist Nestroy: ‘One characteristic of progress is that it appears to be muchbigger than it really is.’ This is an unusual choice of motto, because nowherein his Philosophical Investigationsdoes he mention historical development orprocesses, let alone progress. Moreover, nowhere does he say anything of sig-nificance at all about such a concept.1
