Wittgenstein's Family Letters (eBook, PDF)

Corresponding with Ludwig
Redaktion: Mcguinness, Brian / Übersetzer: Winslow, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In letters written over forty years, we see how his ideas and relationships developed during his time as a prisoner of war, a school teacher, an architect and throughout his years at Cambridge.

Always frank and often brutally honest, these letters between Wittgenstein, his brother Paul and his three sisters, Hermine, Margaret and Helene are filled with a familiarity and an intimacy. They allow us to enter the bygone world of an extraordinary family, revealing a side of Wittgenstein we have never seen before.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474298117
• Artikelnr.: 54949976

Autorenporträt

Brian McGuinness is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Siena, Italy. He is author of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (with David Pears) and A Life of Wittgenstein (Volume 1, Young Ludwig, 1988). Peter Winslow is a professional translator. He has translated the work of Karl Kraus.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Family Tree Cast of Characters Ludwig's Early Letters 1908 The War Years August 1914
April 1918 Captivity November 1918
September 1919 The Tractatus and the elementary school years October 1920
March 1926 A Viennese intermezzo a letter from late 1928? Cambridge January 1929
February 1938 121 The Anschluss and World War Two March 1938
May 1945 172 Ludwig's last letters January 1946
April 1951 Index