Ludwig Wittgenstein : philosophy in the age of airplanes / Anthony Gottlieb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottlieb, Anthony, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Series:

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Jewish lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophers--Austria--Biography.

Philosophers.

Philosophers--Great Britain--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

209 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosophy is a 'battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.' This audacious idea changed the way many of its practitioners saw their subject. In the first biography of Wittgenstein in more than three decades, Anthony Gottlieb evaluates this revolutionary idea, explaining the evolution of Wittgenstein's thought and his place in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein was born into an immensely rich Viennese family but yearned to live a simple life, and he gave away his inheritance. After studying with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge, he wrote his famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while serving in World War I. He then took several positions as a primary-school teacher in rural Austria before returning as a fellow to Cambridge, where a cult-like following developed around him. Wittgenstein worked not only as a philosopher and schoolteacher, but also as an aeronautical engineer in Manchester and as an architect in Vienna. Gottlieb's meticulously researched book traces the itinerant and troubled life of Wittgenstein, the development of his influential ideas, and the Viennese intellectual milieu and family background that shaped him."--from the inside front flap.

Contents:

"A new way of philosophizing"

At home with the Wittgensteins

The teacher who taught himself

The next big step

Work on oneself

The stream of life

A head full of question marks

Chronology

Family tree

Notes

Further reading

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300180470

9780300180473

OCLC:

1499672456