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A bubbling cauldron: Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Tablet Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of AirplanesANTHONY GOTTLIEB(YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 232 PP, Β£16.99)TABLET BOOKSHOP PRICE Β£15.29 β€’ TEL 020 7799 406

"..In this miraculously well written little book, Gottlieb does something that has certainly not been done before..." www.thetablet.co.uk/books/a-bubb...

15.01.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Wittgenstein disagreed with everyone (including himself) In 1921, he’d solved all the fundamental problems of philosophy – then he tore it all up

"...On his deathbed, he exclaimed: β€œTell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” Maybe so, yet you close this wonderful biography thinking that the linguistic philosopher JL Austin summed him up best: β€œPoor old Witters.” " www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/12aace9...

01.01.2026 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! As a former secretary of the Moral Sciences Club, I salute you with my Wittgensteinean poker

31.12.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In case you're looking for "a great present": fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

09.12.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A conversation on the towering self-confidence of the Wittgenstein family, the physicists who sparked some of Ludwig's ideas, music and the inexpressible, and--among other things--why life is maybe not like a pineapple.

20.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Ludwig Wittgenstein’ Review: An Attack on the Abstract Wittgenstein argued that words have meaning β€œonly in the stream of life.” Philosophical problems arise when β€œlanguage goes on holiday.”

Yet more Wittgenstein: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

19.11.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wittgenstein's great silence The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.

An appreciative review of my Wittgenstein biography, from Bryan Appleyard:
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/witt...

12.11.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's what Karl Kraus (on whom Wittgenstein was very keen) said about psychoanalysis.

02.11.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œFixing” the Definitions of Philosophical Terms - Daily Nous Sometimes, philosophical terms mean one thing, but sound like they really ought to mean something else. That was the premise of the Uxbridge Dictionary of Philosophy, a compilation of "misdefinitions"...

Philosophical terminology unseriously explained: dailynous.com/2025/10/29/f...

30.10.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as β€œNeverending Therapy” In 1931, at the age of forty-one, Ludwig Wittgenstein mused in his diary that perhaps his name would live on only as the end point of Western philosophyβ€”β€œlike the name of the one who burnt down the…

The first chapter of my new short biography of Wittgenstein is free to read at Lit Hub: lithub.com/on-the-simpl...

22.10.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First review of my new short biography of Wittgenstein, in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...

18.10.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm pleased to say that this is now available for pre-order: www.amazon.com/Ludwig-Wittg...

27.02.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break? Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

My piece on Leibniz, in this week's issue of the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

06.01.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: β€˜Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Many thanks - working link is this: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

23.11.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: β€˜Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Many thanks - working link is this: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

23.11.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: β€˜Herald of a Restless World,’ by Emily Herring Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.

Before Beatlemania, there was Bergsonmania: my review of a new biography of Bergson www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

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