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 […]
About Friedrich August von Hayek: 5. März 2015
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 […]
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 […]
Biesenbach Book Presentation
27 November 2014 Alois Pichler, Todor Polimenov, Hans Biesenbach, Allan Janik, Knut Olav Åmås BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Great War and the Unsayable
11 November 2014 Ray Monk & Bethany Bell Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Wittgenstein and Music
13 November 2014 Allan Janik, Steven Beller & Ray Monk BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
Allusions and Quotes in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Writings
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. […]
WITTGENSTEIN AND MUSIC
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, the Great War and the Unsayable
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 […]