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 (1889 – 1951) sought to lead us beyond the long fantasy — so dominant in philosophy — that a single mind can figure everything out. Rather, we need the greater unity of genuine ...

The "Wittgenstein Monument" in Skjolden, Norway, erected near the philosopher's hut in 2018 by artists Sebastian Kjølaas, Marianne Bredesen, and Siri Hjorth. (via “§4.003 Most questions and ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 -- Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most influential and eccentric philosophers of the 20th century. Born in Vienna in 1889, Wittgenstein came from an old and prominent Austrian ...

In this day of divisive discourses and competing realities, the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein—the enigmatic iconoclast whose 75th death anniversary will be observed next week—have never seemed more ...

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 ...

He may have been one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers – perhaps the greatest – but Ludwig Wittgenstein could have been so many other things if he had turned his mind to it. An engineer, for ...

A century after its publication, the philosopher’s Tractatus remains as radical as ever. By Ray Monk In 1920, after failing five times to find a publisher for his newly finished book, Tractatus Logico ...