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Odd to frame this as a story about the 1920s when one of the quartet, Wittgenstein, spent the decade in philosophical exile. He finished the Tractatus in 1919 a
by Emma_Goldman 6y ago
Odd to frame this as a story about the 1920s when one of the quartet, Wittgenstein, spent the decade in philosophical exile. He finished the Tractatus in 1919 and didn't return to Cambridge until 1929.
- woodandsteel 6y agoHe never stopped thinking about philosophical problems, and when he returned to academia his views had changed radically.
- Emma_Goldman 6y agoTrue, but the 1920s were easily his least active, philosophically. He did most of the work for the Tractatus in the 1910s; most of the work for the Investigations in the 1930s.
- hyperpape 6y agoHe published Some Remarks on Logical Form in 1929. It's been 10 years since I was reading Wittgenstein, but my recollection is that work was still Tractarian. The blue and brown books came in the 30s.
- woodandsteel 6y agoSo it looks like I was mistaken.