Ricerche filosofiche

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mario Trinchero

"I pensieri che qui pubblico costituiscono il precipitato di ricerche filosofiche che mi hanno tenuto occupato negli ultimi sedici anni. Essi riguardano molti oggetti: il concetto di significato, di comprendere, di proposizione, di logica, i fondamenti della matematica, gli stati di coscienza, e altre cose ancora. Ho messo giù tutti questi pensieri sotto forma di osservazioni, di brevi paragrafi". Così si esprimeva nel 1945 Ludwig Wittgenstein su queste "Ricerche filosofiche", accanto al "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" la sua opera maggiore, la summa delle sue speculazioni ed esperienze di scopritore di nuove prospettive filosofiche ed etiche.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Language, Classics, Linguistics, German Literature, Psychology

298 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Ph.D., Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1929) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Described by Bertrand Russell as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating", he helped inspire two of the twentieth century's principal philosophical movements: the Vienna Circle and Oxford ordinary language philosophy. According to an end of the century poll, professional philosophers in Canada and the U.S. rank both his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations among the top five most important books in twentieth-century philosophy, the latter standing out as "...the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations". Wittgenstein's influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences, yet there are widely diverging interpretations of his thought.