On the Trail to Wittgenstein's Hut: The Historical Background of the Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus

ISBN-13: 9781138512764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 217 str.

Ivar Oxaal

Opis

One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in this imaginative work

Spis treści

Preface
Prologue: It Was the Year of the Titanic (1912)
Part 1: Anti-Semitism in the German Lands
1. The Origins of the Wittgensteins
2. Vienna: A City of Dreams
3. Ludwig in the Prussian Kaiserstadt
Part 2: Manchester to Trinity College, Cambridge
4. Racisms and Pessimism in the British Empire
5. Mysticism in Trinity
Part 3: Norway (1913-14) and at the End of the War
6. The German Kaiser and Wittgenstein in Norway
7. Daniel Deronda, in Brand Country, and on the Eastern Front
Part 4: On the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
8. In The Hague (1919)
9. On the Origin of the Title
Postscript
Appendixes
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Ivar Oxaal