Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th century.
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s way to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the ground-breaking works in the history of philosophy, can rightly be termed an Odyssey. Both in terms of his movements and his intellectual development in the course of writing it, the Tractatus incorporated an exciting, improbable journey. A compendium of scholars has come together at the 100th anniversary of the work’s first official publication in 1922 to detail the main stations in Wittgenstein’s life that would entirely transform philosophy. The years 1912 to 1922 are illuminated through photos, military maps, and letters against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic periods in world history.
The complex theory of language developed by Wittgenstein In the Tractatus had an enormous influence not only on philosophy, but extended also to literature, music, film, painting, architecture, anthropology, and economics. Its uniqueness and rigor challenge our perceptions to this day.
Table of Content
Who Is Afraid of Ludwig Wittgenstein? or, An Austrian Enigma by Radmila Schweitzer
What Is an Odyssey in Philosophy? by Allan Janik
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Youth
1911: First Visit to Gottlob Frege in Jena
1911–1913: Wittgenstein in Cambridge by Ray Monk
1913–1914: The Quiet Seriousness of Norway by Knut Olav Åmås
July 14, 1914: Letter from Wittgenstein to Ludwig von Ficker
1914 –1916: Wittgenstein in Polish Galicia by Urszula Idziak-Smoczyn‘ska
Pictures, Models, and Measures by Susan G. Sterrett
1914–1918: The Emergence of the Tractatus in the first World War: Addenda to Previous Biographies by Martin Pilch
March–September 1916: Ludwig Wittgenstein during the Brusilov-Offensive in Bukowina by Martin Pilch
Finding Our Way Home: The Philosophy of the Tractatus by Ian Ground
1919 –1920: “To a Teacher’s College to Become a Teacher” by Xenia Baumann and Students of the College Preparatory School Kundmanngasse in Vienna
1919 –1922: “Pearls before Swine …” The Difficult Publication History of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Alfred Schmidt
Facsimile of Wittgenstein’s Personal Dedication to Arvid Sjögren
The Poetics of the Tractatus by Marjorie Perloff
Ludwig Wittgenstein: After the Tractatus
Endnotes
Abbreviations
Selected Bibliography
About the Authors
About the author
Dr. Ian Ground has taught philosophy in a range of roles, including senior lecturer in philosophy, at the universities of Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham and Edinburgh. A specialist in making philosophical ideas accessible to the wider public, and in enabling people to think critically about current ideas and trends, he has been an innovator in the sectors of adult education and lifelong learning. Ground has won awards for Teaching Innovation and the UK’s National Award in Lifelong Learning. He has published in the philosophy of mind, especially our understanding of animal minds, in the philosophy of art, and on the thought and life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. His books include Art or Bunk?, Can We Understand Animal Minds?, and Portraits of Wittgenstein, a comprehensive collection of memoirs. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and Vice-President of the British Wittgenstein Society.38,853 Ebooks in this category
