Wittgenstein wanted to adopt a far-distant point of view and look at philosophical problems from an ethnological perspective. Was his sharp confrontation with James Frazer s principal work, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, an exercise in such an ethnological point of view? In this study, Brusotti shows that Wittgenstein s thinking opened up new dimensions in language and cultural philosophy.
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Wittgenstein wanted to adopt a far-distant point of view and look at philosophical problems from an ethnological perspective. Was his sharp confron...