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Watch a weird Wittgenstein

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Derek Jarman, film, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philsophy on 25 November 2013 by delclem

“When last week we featured Bertrand Russell telling a story about his philosophical disciple Ludwig Wittgenstein, I mentioned in passing a film about the latter by Derek Jarman” shot 20 years ago. >more (c) open culture 2013

Ludwig Wittgenstein & ‘Fuzzy’ Photography

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, photography, University of Cambridge on 11 September 2013 by delclem

“For the unsentimentally cerebral Wittgenstein, a photograph is not a memorial, but a ‘probability’. The philosopher’s archive at the University of Cambridge includes the photograph above, a true ‘probability’ in that it does not represent any one person but is a composite image of his face and the faces of his three sisters, made in collaboration with the ‘founding father of eugenics,’ Francis Galton.” (Well, I don’t buy the latter, since Galton dies in 1911…) >full text (c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013

Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, review on 17 July 2013 by delclem

“Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a prominent role in moulding professional consequences. With that in mind, author Ray Monk sets off on a very specific quest in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius – to draw, where countless others have failed, an unbroken line between the work of the philosopher and the man himself.” >review (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013