Research Catalog

Title

Wittgenstein's family letters : corresponding with Ludwig / edited with an introduction by Brian McGuinness ; translated by Peter Winslow.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• McGuinness, Brian
• Winslow, Peter

Description

xliv, 295 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table; 22 cm

Summary

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.In letters written over forty years, we see how his ideas and relationships developed during his time as a prisoner of war, a school teacher, an architect and throughout his years at Cambridge. Always frank and often brutally honest, these letters between Wittgenstein, his brother Paul and his three sisters, Hermine, Margaret and Helene are filled with a familiarity and an intimacy. They allow us to enter the bygone world of an extraordinary family, revealing a side of Wittgenstein we have never seen before.

Subjects

• Philosophers
• Philosophers > Germany > Correspondence
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 > Correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• Germany

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Call Number

JFD 19-1318

ISBN

• 1474298133
• 9781474298131

OCLC

967072371

Title

Wittgenstein's family letters : corresponding with Ludwig / edited with an introduction by Brian McGuinness ; translated by Peter Winslow.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Translated from the German.

Added Author

McGuinness, Brian, editor.

Winslow, Peter, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1318