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 […]
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WITTGENSTEIN’S SHAKESPEARE
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]