A detailed day-by-day timeline of 1916, based on Wittgenstein’s third war notebook (Ms 103), his personal correspondence, as well as military maps and official reports Appendix to Martin Pilch’s essay […]
The Wittgenstein Family: Reconstruction of a Phenomenon 26. April 2023, Leopold Museum Wien Georg Gaugusch (Historiker, Spezialist für jüdische Genealogie) Wolf-Erich Eckstein (Genealoge) Moderation: Reinhold Hohengartner (Historiker, Wittgenstein Initiative) Begrüßung: […]
DoppelHouse Press Los Angeles Edited by Radmila Schweitzer Co-published with the Wittgenstein Initiative 240 pages fully illustrated in color October 2023 A collectible book charting Wittgenstein’s movements, personal struggles, and […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Antisemitismus und der Exodus der österreichischen geistigen Elite Zyklus von Podiumsdiskussionen Wittgenstein im Kontext seiner Zeit und Gesellschaftsgruppe „Kultur ist eine Ordensregel. Oder setzt doch eine Ordensregel voraus.” […]
The Wittgenstein Initiative is a Vienna-based international forum that aspires to make present in the city of his birth Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the greatest thinkers and most remarkable individuals […]
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 […]