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 ...

PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS 1914-1916 By Ludwig Wittgenstein Edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff Illustrated. 218 pages. Liveright. $24.95. It’s perhaps a measure of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s genius ...

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.

Many people believe that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the 20th century’s most important philosopher. It is somewhat ironic, then, that he is probably best known for waving a poker at ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein. Born into a wealthy Viennese family, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the glamour boy of English philosophy in the 20 th century, and in the new millennium ...

If Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus radically redefines the scope of philosophy, it has proved irresistibly suggestive to literary theorists, poets, and artists.

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War By Alexander Waugh Doubleday, 366 pages, $27.50 With apologies to his cult, here’s a sound bite version of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy: A ...

Wittgenstein was no doubt conscious of the irony of making this argument through language. But in so doing, he offered a path ...