No one expects contemporary philosophers to be more than mildly eccentric. Creatures of the modern academy, they have careers, not vocations. Some mixture of incentive and professional obligation ...

In 1943, two of the century’s most original thinkers—Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil—found themselves in bomb-battered London, looking for medical work to help the war effort. Though they never ...

The "Wittgenstein Monument" in Skjolden, Norway, erected near the philosopher's hut in 2018 by artists Sebastian Kjølaas, Marianne Bredesen, and Siri Hjorth. (via “§4.003 Most questions and ...

These journals offer a view of the philosopher’s preoccupations, his sexual anguish, his struggles with work and his time in the military. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently ...

Ludwig himself was of a melancholy, tortured disposition and, at least as a young adult, often brooded about committing suicide. Bertrand Russell remarked that Wittgenstein was "perhaps the most ...

He may have been one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers – perhaps the greatest – but Ludwig Wittgenstein could have been so many other things if he had turned his mind to it. An engineer, for ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) sought to lead us beyond the long fantasy — so dominant in philosophy — that a single mind can figure everything out. Rather, we need the greater unity of genuine ...

My dog-eared copy of Philosophical Investigations still bears the scars of my 19-year-old student self. Among the underlinings and margin notes are the scribbled phone numbers of former girlfriends ...

A century after its publication, the philosopher’s Tractatus remains as radical as ever. By Ray Monk In 1920, after failing five times to find a publisher for his newly finished book, Tractatus Logico ...