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Ludwig Wittgenstein's brief Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth
century, yet it offers little orientation for the reader. The
first-time reader is left wondering what it could be about, and the
scholar is left with little guidance for interpretation. In
Tractatus in Context, James C. Klagge presents the vital background
necessary for appreciating Wittgenstein's gnomic masterpiece.
Tractatus in Context contains the early reactions to the Tractatus,
including the initial reviews written in 1922-1924. And while we
can't talk with Wittgenstein, we can do the next best thing-hear
what he had to say about the Tractatus. Klagge thus presents what
Wittgenstein thought about germane issues leading up to his writing
the book, in discussions and correspondence with others about his
ideas, and what he had to say about the Tractatus after it was
written-in letters, lectures and conversations. It offers, you
might say, Wittgenstein's own commentary on the book. Key Features:
Illuminates what is at stake in the Tractatus, by providing the
views of others that engaged Wittgenstein as he was writing it.
Includes Wittgenstein's earlier thoughts on ideas in the book as
recorded in his notebooks, letters, and conversations as well as
his later, retrospective comments on those ideas. Draws on new or
little-known sources, such as Wittgenstein's coded notebooks,
Hermine's notes, Frege's letters, Hansel's diary, Ramsey's notes,
and Skinner's dictations. Draws connections between the background
context and specific passages in the Tractatus, using a
proposition-by-proposition commentary.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's brief Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth
century, yet it offers little orientation for the reader. The
first-time reader is left wondering what it could be about, and the
scholar is left with little guidance for interpretation. In
Tractatus in Context, James C. Klagge presents the vital background
necessary for appreciating Wittgenstein's gnomic masterpiece.
Tractatus in Context contains the early reactions to the Tractatus,
including the initial reviews written in 1922-1924. And while we
can't talk with Wittgenstein, we can do the next best thing-hear
what he had to say about the Tractatus. Klagge thus presents what
Wittgenstein thought about germane issues leading up to his writing
the book, in discussions and correspondence with others about his
ideas, and what he had to say about the Tractatus after it was
written-in letters, lectures and conversations. It offers, you
might say, Wittgenstein's own commentary on the book. Key Features:
Illuminates what is at stake in the Tractatus, by providing the
views of others that engaged Wittgenstein as he was writing it.
Includes Wittgenstein's earlier thoughts on ideas in the book as
recorded in his notebooks, letters, and conversations as well as
his later, retrospective comments on those ideas. Draws on new or
little-known sources, such as Wittgenstein's coded notebooks,
Hermine's notes, Frege's letters, Hansel's diary, Ramsey's notes,
and Skinner's dictations. Draws connections between the background
context and specific passages in the Tractatus, using a
proposition-by-proposition commentary.
While the published works of Ludwig Wittgenstein reveal the final,
coalesced thoughts of this philosophical giant, Wittgenstein's
diary reveals his process of doing philosophy. Only in his private
writing does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully come to
light. In particular, Wittgensten's diary entries from the 1930s
reveal themselves as a first-person spiritual epic. Wittgenstein
agonizes over his relationship with Marguerite Respinger and tries
to come to terms with its failure. He relates and interprets
several of his dreams. He comments on his philosophical colleagues
Frank Ramsey and G.E. Moore. He comments on musicians such as
Beethoven, Bruckner and Brahms, and authors such as Kraus, Mann,
Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard. He struggles to make
confessions to a number of friends and family. He relates in
painful detail his spiritual crisis in Norway in the late winter of
1937. From a man who once recommended silence about spiritual
matters, we find here an honest and searing articulation of his
attempts to believe and live what he finds in the Bible. Here are
the raw materials for what could have been one of the great
spiritual autobiographies of the twentieth century. It is available
here for the first time in an affordable edition, with updated and
expanded editorial notes to help the reader understand
Wittgenstein's many allusions, and with a new Introduction by Ray
Monk, which places the diary in the larger arc of Wittgenstein
life.
In the safety of his manuscripts, Ludwig Wittgenstein was free to
endlessly revise, rework and reframe his philosophical thoughts.
Thus his published work yields a glimpse of just a small portion of
Wittgenstein's philosophical thought-the portion that eventually
appeared in print. Yet for Wittgenstein, philosophy was an on-going
activity, a process. Only in his dialog with the philosophical
community and in his private moments does Wittgenstein's
philosophical practice fully come to light. Those public and
private occasions are collected here. In Private Occasions,
co-editor Alfred Nordmann presents Wittgenstein's diaries from the
1930s to an English audience for the first time. They are
accompanied by Wittgenstein's letters to and from friend Ludwig
Hansel. Together, they reveal a great deal about Wittgenstein, who
himself says "The movement of thought in my philosophizing should
be discernible also in the history of my mind." In Public
Occasions, James Klagge collects Wittgenstein's papers and
speeches, some newly published, from a number of forums, including
his lectures at Cambridge and his involvement with the Cambridge
Moral Science Club. Much of Wittgenstein's philosophical work came
through, or in the form of, dialogs, making these public encounters
particularly valuable. The result of this collaboration, Ludwig
Wittgenstein: Public and Private Occasions, is a thorough look at
the philosophy of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers that
goes beyond a mere study of his published work.
While the published works of Ludwig Wittgenstein reveal the final,
coalesced thoughts of this philosophical giant, Wittgenstein's
diary reveals his process of doing philosophy. Only in his private
writing does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully come to
light. In particular, Wittgensten's diary entries from the 1930s
reveal themselves as a first-person spiritual epic. Wittgenstein
agonizes over his relationship with Marguerite Respinger and tries
to come to terms with its failure. He relates and interprets
several of his dreams. He comments on his philosophical colleagues
Frank Ramsey and G.E. Moore. He comments on musicians such as
Beethoven, Bruckner and Brahms, and authors such as Kraus, Mann,
Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard. He struggles to make
confessions to a number of friends and family. He relates in
painful detail his spiritual crisis in Norway in the late winter of
1937. From a man who once recommended silence about spiritual
matters, we find here an honest and searing articulation of his
attempts to believe and live what he finds in the Bible. Here are
the raw materials for what could have been one of the great
spiritual autobiographies of the twentieth century. It is available
here for the first time in an affordable edition, with updated and
expanded editorial notes to help the reader understand
Wittgenstein's many allusions, and with a new Introduction by Ray
Monk, which places the diary in the larger arc of Wittgenstein
life.
A new way of looking at Wittgenstein: as an exile from an earlier
cultural era. Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are among the most
influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also
among the most perplexing. Wittgenstein warned again and again that
he was not and would not be understood. Moreover, Wittgenstein's
work seems to have little relevance to the way philosophy is done
today. In Wittgenstein in Exile, James Klagge proposes a new way of
looking at Wittgenstein-as an exile-that helps make sense of this.
Wittgenstein's exile was not, despite his wanderings from Vienna to
Cambridge to Norway to Ireland, strictly geographical; rather,
Klagge argues, Wittgenstein was never at home in the twentieth
century. He was in exile from an earlier era-Oswald Spengler's
culture of the early nineteenth century. Klagge draws on the full
range of evidence, including Wittgenstein's published work, the
complete Nachlass, correspondence, lectures, and conversations. He
places Wittgenstein's work in a broad context, along a trajectory
of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky. Yet Klagge
also writes from an analytic philosophical perspective, discussing
such topics as essentialism, private experience, relativism,
causation, and eliminativism. Once we see Wittgenstein's exile,
Klagge argues, we will gain a better appreciation of the difficulty
of understanding Wittgenstein and his work.
This collection of new essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy. The first two essays reflect on general problems inherent in philosophical biography itself. The essays that follow draw on recently published letters as well as recently published diaries from the 1930s to explore Wittgenstein's background as an engineer and its relation to the Tractatus, the impact of his schizoid personality on his approach to philosophy, his role as a diarist, letter-writer and polemicist, and finally the complex issue of Wittgenstein as a Jew.
This collection of new essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy. The first two essays reflect on general problems inherent in philosophical biography itself. The essays that follow draw on recently published letters as well as recently published diaries from the 1930s to explore Wittgenstein's background as an engineer and its relation to the Tractatus, the impact of his schizoid personality on his approach to philosophy, his role as a diarist, letter-writer and polemicist, and finally the complex issue of Wittgenstein as a Jew.
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