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Kadin Nguyen
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I truly underestimated how much emphasis is placed on Wittgenstein’s influences instead of how it influenced the man himself. It’s strange because I don’t yet see how the history of fin de siècle Vienna, the satirist Karl Kraus, or the Austrian secession influenced Wittgenstein’s thought. I must have underestimated the aim of this book then, but I’ll read on.
— Oct 05, 2025 09:04PM
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Kadin Nguyen
is on page 150 of 315
Worked my way through rather drab sections on Loos, Schönberg, Hofmannsthal, and Musil, the “cultural critics” of fin de siècle Vienna. Then, Janik and Toulmin presumably begin to trace the origin of concerns about language, ethics, and the metaphysical (as it relates to science) up to Wittgenstein. They begin with Mauthner, then Mach, Hertz, Boltzmann, the critical philosophy of Kant, and next Schopenhauer.
— Oct 09, 2025 10:24PM
