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 […]
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 […]
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The previously unpublished family memoirs of Ludwig’s eldest sister, Hermine, are being made available for the first time.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 […]
Princeton Talks at the Sigmund Freud Museum A Farewell to Arms: Joseph Roth’s Radetsky March. Vortrag in Englisch von Marjorie Perloff in Kooperation mit Princeton Global Seminar. Eintritt frei. 1. […]
EINLADUNG ZUM VORTRAG Freitag, 3. Juli 2015, 15:30 Uhr Peter Keicher: Beispiele aus Wittgensteins Nachlaß in der Ausstellung “Der Wiener Kreis” Peter Keicher erläutert seine grafische Darstellung des Wittgenstein-Nachlasses und […]
Sind Ludwig Wittgensteins Schöpfergeist und sein Kulturerbe heute in Wien noch präsent? Der einflussreichste Philosoph des 20. Jahrhunderts, der als “Aushängeschild der österreichischen Geisteswissenschaften” bezeichnet wird, hat behauptet, dass es […]
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, […]
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 […]
A short account of his key ideas, their origin and development Kurt R. Leube (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) in deutscher Sprache / in German Thursday, 5 March 2015, 19:00-20:30 Bulgarian […]
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 […]
27 November 2014 Alois Pichler, Todor Polimenov, Hans Biesenbach, Allan Janik, Knut Olav Åmås BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
11 November 2014 Ray Monk & Bethany Bell Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
13 November 2014 Allan Janik, Steven Beller & Ray Monk BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
BUY THE BOOK BOOK PRESENTATION Dr. Knut Olav Åmås (Fritt Ord Foundation Oslo) Dr. Hans Biesenbach (Author, Münster im Oberhessen) Prof. Dr. Allan Janik (Brenner Archive Innsbruck) Tsonka Kazakova (St. […]
Prof. Dr. Allan Janik Emeritus Professor of Cultural History and Philosophy at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and the Royal Instituten of Technology in Stockholm. He specializes in the cultural history […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein enlisted into the Austrian army in 1914, hoping that the experience of facing death would have a profound effect on his character. His hopes were realised. The Wittgenstein […]