Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey : The Great War and the Writing of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus / Radmila Schweitzer [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweitzer, Radmila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : DoppelHouse Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Charts Wittgenstein's intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th century. Ludwig Wittgenstein's way to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the ground-breaking works in the history of philosophy, can rightly be termed an Odyssey. Both in terms of his movements and his intellectual development in the course of writing it, the Tractatus incorporated an exciting, improbable journey. A compendium of scholars has come together at the 100th anniversary of the work's first official publication in 1922 to detail the main stations in Wittgenstein's life that would entirely transform philosophy. The years 1912 to 1922 are illuminated through photos, military maps, and letters against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic periods in world history. The complex theory of language developed by Wittgenstein In the Tractatus had an enormous influence not only on philosophy, but extended also to literature, music, film, painting, architecture, anthropology, and economics. Its uniqueness and rigor challenge our perceptions to this day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Who Is Afraid of Ludwig Wittgenstein? or, An Austrian Enigma

What Is an Odyssey in Philosophy?

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Youth

1911: First Visit to Gottlob Frege in Jena

1911-1913: Wittgenstein in Cambridge

1913-1914: The Quiet Seriousness of Norway

14 July 1914: Letter from Wittgenstein to Ludwig von Ficker

1914-1916: Wittgenstein in Polish Galicia

Pictures, Models, and Measures

1914-1918: The Genesis of the Tractatus in the First World War - Addenda to Previous Biographies

Finding Our Way Home: The Philosophy of the Tractatus

1919-1920: "To a Teachers' College to Become a Teacher"

1919-1922: "Pearls before Swine …" - The Difficult Publication History of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Facsimile of Wittgenstein's Personal Dedication to Arvid Sjögren

The Poetics of the Tractatus

Ludwig Wittgenstein: After the Tractatus

Endnotes

Abbreviations

Selected Bibliography

About the Authors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Schweitzer, Radmila Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey

ISBN:

9781954600300

1954600305

OCLC:

1397573895