Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein Pop Art T-Shirt, by Felix Bennett, from the cover of The Philosophers' Magazine issue 33, 1st quarter 2006, at CafePress
Recommended reading:
by Ludwig Wittgenstein at Reading Rat
Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):
The philosopher in the family renounced virtually all of his inheritance early on, living a simple life throughout his extraordinary career, whether in a Norwegian hut or sparsely furnished rooms at Cambridge.--Carlin Romano , An Author's Favorite Wittgenstein, The Chroncle Review, April 24, 2009 (via Arts & Letters Daily)
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations offers philosophy a way out of its insuperable conundrums—about the existence of the external world and other minds, for example—not by providing a new system capable of answering all questions but by way of freedom from such barren speculation.--Thomas S. Hibbs, Mind Games, First Things, January 2009, review of Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Psychology, by Fergus Kerr
... Ludwig Wittgenstein was not a guru; he was a supremely rigorous thinker who, by paying minute attention to the structure and limits of language, sought to clear away the conceptual confusions that plague philosophy.--Jim Holt, Suicide Squad , The New York Times, March 1, 2009, review of The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, by Alexander Waugh
By the time that Ludwig (the youngest of eight children) was born, in 1889, the Wittgensteins were living in grand style in a Viennese 'Palais', enjoying the best of everything - especially music. Their musical soirées, attended sometimes by Brahms, Strauss or Mahler, were among the best in Vienna, and they also had a major collection of manuscripts by Mozart, Beethoven and others.--The Telegraph, Review: The House of Wittgenstein, December 9, 2008, by Alexander Waugh
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Pictures by Kristof Nyiri, Wittgenstein Research Revisited: Conference at the HIT Centre - University of Bergen, 12th-15th of December 2001
Problems or Puzzles? review by Edward T. Oakes of Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten–Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers, by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, First Things, May 2002
Wittgenstein's Significance: on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein's death, by Mark Cain, Philosophy Now, September/October 2001
Recommended reading:
by Ludwig Wittgenstein at Reading Rat
Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):
The philosopher in the family renounced virtually all of his inheritance early on, living a simple life throughout his extraordinary career, whether in a Norwegian hut or sparsely furnished rooms at Cambridge.
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations offers philosophy a way out of its insuperable conundrums—about the existence of the external world and other minds, for example—not by providing a new system capable of answering all questions but by way of freedom from such barren speculation.
... Ludwig Wittgenstein was not a guru; he was a supremely rigorous thinker who, by paying minute attention to the structure and limits of language, sought to clear away the conceptual confusions that plague philosophy.
By the time that Ludwig (the youngest of eight children) was born, in 1889, the Wittgensteins were living in grand style in a Viennese 'Palais', enjoying the best of everything - especially music. Their musical soirées, attended sometimes by Brahms, Strauss or Mahler, were among the best in Vienna, and they also had a major collection of manuscripts by Mozart, Beethoven and others.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Pictures by Kristof Nyiri, Wittgenstein Research Revisited: Conference at the HIT Centre - University of Bergen, 12th-15th of December 2001
Problems or Puzzles? review by Edward T. Oakes of Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten–Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers, by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, First Things, May 2002
Wittgenstein's Significance: on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein's death, by Mark Cain, Philosophy Now, September/October 2001
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