Buchpräsentation Dienstag, 20. November 2018, 19:00 Uhr Grillparzerhaus (Staatsarchiv), Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien Um Anmeldung unten wird gebeten. Eintritt: freiwilliger Unkostenbeitrag. Dr. Joachim Schulte (Zürich) Prof. Dr. Allan Janik (Innsbruck) […]
Extract from the Nomination Form International Memory of the World Register Philosophical Nachlass of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austria, Canada, Netherlands, UK) The subject of this joint nomination is the complete philosophical […]
Philosophical Nachlass of Ludwig Wittgenstein Documentary heritage submitted by Austria, Canada, Netherlands and the United Kingdom and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2017. © […]
Der Philosoph ist ein Fixpunkt, wenn Wien 2018 die Moderne groß feiert. Kurier, 17. Juli 2017, Werner Rosenberger Spurensuche im hohen Norden nach dem vielleicht bedeutendsten österreichischen Denker des 20. […]
Der Standard, 2. Juni 2017 Østerrike über dem Fjord: In einem Kaff in Norwegen schrieb der große Philosoph einige seiner wichtigsten Texte Österreich heißt auf Norwegisch Østerrike. Für die Bewohner […]
Wer auf Wittgensteins Spuren wandert, kann nicht nur Logik lernen: In der Welt des Philosophen lag Österreich an einem Fjord. Clemens Panagl, Salzburger Nachrichten, 22.5.2017 SKJOLDEN. Der Weg zur Erkenntnis […]
ETHICS AND AESTHETICS ARE ONE. EGON SCHIELE IN THE LIGHT OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AND THE THEORY OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION OF ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG by Carla Carmona The question […]
CONTRASTS AND LEGACIES by Steven Beller (Washington DC) It is now more than forty years since one of the greatest books about the history of Viennese modern culture at the […]
Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire 224 pages | 8 color plates, 26 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2016 Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who […]
by Ray Monk, University of Southampton Lecture given at a conference on “Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy,” on March 25, 1999, at Virginia Tech, organized by James C. Klagge; and at […]
by James Conant, University of Chicago Lecture given at a symposium on “Philosophy and Biography,” on May 18, 1999, at the University of Athens, organized by Vasso Kindi. We thank […]
von Ray Monk "Die Menschen heute glauben, die Wissenschaftler seien da, sie zu belehren, die Dichter & Musiker etc., sie zu erfreuen. Daß diese sie etwas zu lehren haben; kommt […]
by Peter Winslow (first published on 24 January 2016 on the “a bit of pitch” blog) In a well-known remark from 1931, published in Vermischte Bermerkungen (Culture and Value), Ludwig […]
by Ray Monk "People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that […]
FROM POSITIVIST RABBI TO RESOLUTE READER This interview appeared for the first time in the Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Volume 2 / Number 1 (Aug 2013), eds. Alois Pichler, Simo Säätelä, […]
by ALLAN JANIK The horrible events last week in Paris force a lot of hard thoughts upon us. In the first instance the very possibility that the fanatics could pull […]
Editors: Ian Ground,F.A. Flowers III Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history […]
The previously unpublished family memoirs of Ludwig’s eldest sister, Hermine, are being made available for the first time. Her descriptions of the individual family members are both detailed and lively; […]
We are pleased to publish an announcement of the BRITISH WITTGENSTEIN SOCIETY: The British Wittgenstein Society was aware that the ledger stone of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s grave was beginning to look stained, […]
by Marjorie Perloff, Stanford From The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, ed. Oskari Kuusela and Marie McGinn (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2011), Chapter 31,714-28. “His disposition,” Bertrand Russell wrote of the […]
by Marjorie Perloff, Stanford From Will the Modernist: Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes, ed. Giovanni Cianci and Caroline Patey (London: Peter Lang, 2014), 107-24. People look at [Shakespeare] in […]
We’re delighted to announce that Prof. Ray Monk has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Royal Society was founded in 1820 and past fellows include […]
Curator: Alois Pichler, Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) Wittgenstein Source provides free access to Wittgenstein primary sources. This includes facsimiles and text editions of Wittgenstein’s philosophical manuscripts […]
by Sebastian Smallshaw Music didn’t dominate Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thinking to the extent it did Theodor Adorno’s, but it was a significant preoccupation, and music appears persistently in Wittgenstein’s writings and […]
Classical Music’s Unsung Heroines by Bethany Bell Leopoldine Wittgenstein is someone it’s easy to overlook. Neurotic and shy, she stands in the shadow not just of her extraordinarily talented children, […]