Wittgenstein's first work, Tractatus, promotes the kind of naturalist reductionism so popular today, whereas his last work, Philosophical Investigations, is a b

Wittgenstein's first work, Tractatus, promotes the kind of naturalist reductionism so popular today, whereas his last work, Philosophical Investigations, is a big swing to the other side, emphasizing the irreducible dimension of language. A crude summary, but IMHO, he's a bridge between Analytic and Continental philosophy.