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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
16 November 2015 Alois Pichler, Maximilian Hadersbeck, Alfred Schmidt, Radmila Schweitzer Grillparzerhaus, Vienna
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 […]
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 […]
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The previously unpublished family memoirs of Ludwig’s eldest sister, Hermine, are being made available for the first time.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