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Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry.” In Wittgenstein’s Artillery, 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.