Culture and Value

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Winch (Translator)

Overview

The most wide-ranging and accessible thoughts of a philosophical genius, from his private notebooks

Throughout his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein reliably set down his thoughts in notebooks. This volume offers a selection of the most interesting and important of the remarks from those notebooks that deal with matters other than technical philosophical issues. In these pages, Wittgenstein reflects on religion, the work of philosophy, genius, music, architecture, and much more. Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226904351
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	05/15/1984
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was arguably the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. He was born in Vienna, but studied and practiced philosophy in Great Britain. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947. He worked in--and transformed--the fields of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Edition of 1977.

Foreword to the 1994 Edition.

Editorial Note.

Note by Translator.

Culture and Value.

A Poem.

Notes.

Appendix:.

List of Sources.

List of Sources, Arranged Alphanumerically.

Index of Beginnings of Remarks.

Subject Index.

Index of Names.

Editorial Reviews

It was Wittgenstein’s habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related ‘remarks’ which he kept in notebooks throughout his life. The editor of this collection has gone through these notebooks in order to select those ‘remarks’ which deal with Wittgenstein’s views about the less technical issues in his philosophy. So here we have Wittgenstein’s thoughts about religion, music, architecture, the nature of philosophy, the spirit of our times, genius, being Jewish, and so on. The work is a masterpiece by a mastermind.

Leonard Linsky