A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family ...

Born into a wealthy Viennese family, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the glamour boy of English philosophy in the 20 th century, and in the new millennium his influence continues to ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is a notoriously difficult philosopher to read, let alone understand. Help is here in the form of one of the volumes in W.W. Norton’s new “How to Read” series. They are short books ...

Very few people can claim to understand all the ideas that Vienna-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) advanced in logic, mathematics and language, but thanks to definitive books like Ray ...

Brian McGuinness has edited and compiled many collections of writings by Wittgenstein and about him, and his 1988 biography, reissued a few years ago as Young Ludwig, as well as being a fascinating ...

The author discusses his Internet artwork 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, which uses a non-linear, hyperlinking structure to create a kind of metabiography anchored by Wittgenstein's life and ...

Ray Monk, Juliet Floyd, Dawn Wilson and Monica Nadler-Wittgenstein join Shahidha Bari for a conversation organised with the Austrian Cultural Forum London for the Tractatus at 100 Show more Called a ...

Is Wittgenstein’s later philosophy – as epitomized in the Philosophical Investigations (referred to as “PI”) – a philosophy of conservatism? Or, stated less academically and more usefully: Does ...