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 […]
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 […]
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 […]