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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wittgenstein and Music
13 November 2014 Allan Janik, Steven Beller & Ray Monk BKI Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
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 […]