Ray Monk Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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 […]
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WITTGENSTEIN SOURCE
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 […]
Schubert manuscripts and ‘acts of piety’: sourcing a Wittgenstein anecdote
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 […]
BBC Radio 3: Leopoldine Wittgenstein
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, […]
a bit of pitch on the Wittgenstein Initiative
by Peter Winslow The Wittgenstein Initiative is a Vienna-based independent non-profit with a mission as ambitious as it is important. The Wittgenstein Initiative aims to harness the originality of quintessentially […]
An Exercise in Enlightenment: Why is the Wittgenstein Family of Interest to Us?
by Allan Janik Answering this question involves reflecting upon the broader goals of the Initiative’s project. Our central interests involve casting light upon the crises and conflicts that are typical […]