WITTGENSTEIN’S AND TODAY’S VIENNA: Anticipating the Future
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 […]
Events
VIDEO Wittgenstein and Modernity
13 April 2016 Ray Monk (University of Southampton) Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) Steven Beller (Washington DC, Historian) Alfred Schmidt (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Moderation)
VIDEO Culture and Science Funding Today
12 April 2016 Knut Olav Åmås (Stiftung Fritt Ord, Moderation) Steven Beller (Washington DC, Historiker) Ilyas Khan (Stanhill Foundation) Eva Nowotny (Österreichische Kommission für UNESCO) Bjørn Øiulfstad (Norwegischer Stiftungsverband) Christian […]
VIDEO Wittgenstein and Norway
12 April 2016 Knut Olav Åmås (Stiftung Fritt Ord, Moderation) Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) Alois Pichler (Wittgenstein Archiv, Universität Bergen) Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (Snøhetta)
MARJORIE PERLOFF: EDGE OF IRONY
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 […]
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: PHILOSOPH, DICHTER und MÄZEN
12. und 13. April 2016 Grillparzerhaus, Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien Gespräche im Grillparzerhaus / Talks at the Grillparzerhaus Eine Kooperation der WITTGENSTEIN INITIATIVE und […]
WITTGENSTEIN und NORWEGEN
Dienstag, 12. April 2016, 16:00-18:00 Uhr Grillparzerhaus, Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien Podiumsdiskussion / Panel Discussion in englischer Sprache / in English Knut Olav Åmås (Stiftung Fritt Ord, Moderation) Marjorie Perloff […]
KULTUR- und WISSENSCHAFTSFÖRDERUNG HEUTE
Dienstag, 12. April 2016, 19:00-21:00 Uhr Grillparzerhaus, Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien Knut Olav Åmås (Stiftung Fritt Ord, Moderation) Steven Beller (Washington DC, Historiker) Ilyas Khan (Stanhill Foundation) Eva Nowotny (Österreichische […]
WITTGENSTEIN und DIE MODERNE
Mittwoch, 13. April 2016, 16:00-18:00 Uhr Grillparzerhaus, Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien Ray Monk (University of Southampton) Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) Steven Beller (Washington DC, Historian) Alfred Schmidt (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Moderation) […]
PHILOSOPHICAL BIOGRAPHY – the Very Idea
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 […]
PHILOSOPHY and BIOGRAPHY
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 […]
WITTGENSTEIN UND WIEN
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 […]
PHILOSOPHIE und LITERATUR
Mittwoch, 13. April 2016, 19:00-21:00 Uhr Literaturmuseum Grillparzerhaus, Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien Podiumsdiskussion / Panel Discussion in deutscher Sprache / in German In Kooperation mit dem Literaturmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek […]
Wittgenstein & Kraus: some speculation
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 […]
WITTGENSTEIN AND VIENNA
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 […]
JAMES CONANT INTERVIEW
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, […]
WiTTFind PROJECT MUNICH/BERGEN
On 16 November 2015 we had the pleasure to present WiTTFind at the Grillparzerhaus in Vienna – one of the most exciting and innovative Wittgenstein scholarship projects, that have emerged […]
Wittgenstein Source and WiTTFind
16 November 2015 Alois Pichler, Maximilian Hadersbeck, Alfred Schmidt, Radmila Schweitzer Grillparzerhaus, Vienna
Paris, November 13-14, 2015
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 […]
NEUE QUELLEN ZU LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: 16. November 2015
Erstmals veröffentlicht: die Familienchronik der Wittgensteins Ilse Somavilla (Brenner Archiv Innsbruck) Alfred Schmidt (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) Die bislang unveröffentlichten Aufzeichnungen von Ludwigs ältester Schwester Hermine werden zugänglich gemacht. Ausführlich und gleichzeitig […]
PORTRAITS OF WITTGENSTEIN revised and updated
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 […]
WITTGENSTEIN INITIATIVE 2015/16
Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde der Wittgenstein Initiative! Wir starten in unsere zweite Saison und können auf gute Fortschritte und wunderbare Abende im letzten Jahr zurückblicken. Nicht nur begannen wir die […]
THE WITTGENSTEIN FAMILY CHRONICLES: Published for the First Time
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; […]
THE RESTORATION OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN’S LEDGER STONE
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, […]
WRITING PHILOSOPHY AS POETRY: LITERARY FORM IN WITTGENSTEIN
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 […]