OF ALL THE innovations that sprang from the trenches of the first world war—the zip, the tea bag, the tank—the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” must be among the most elegant and humane. When the ...

Cambridge University professor Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is frequently described as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he only published one 82-page book ("Tractatus ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 40 scholars from across the country and abroad will gather at UCSC the week of June 21-28 for a conference on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his significance for contemporary philosophy ...

This post is in response to Normative Happiness By Joachim I. Krueger Ph.D. Joachim Krueger begins his recent post, “Normative Happiness,” with an epigraph from Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was music, especially, that united the family. F. R. Leavis recalled Wittgenstein’s once having told him that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: The Austrian composer Arthur Schoenberg who was busy revolutionising music in early 20th ...

Specializing in philosophy of film, theory of action, philosophy of language, and the work of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilson was especially known for his "Imagined Seeing Thesis," ...