Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Followers (3,031)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Born

in Wien (Vienna), Austria

April 26, 1889

Died

April 29, 1951

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/

Genre

Philosophy, Science, Social Sciences

Influences

edit data

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 boo ...more

Combine Editions
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s books

Average rating: 4.15 · 52,983 ratings · 2,821 reviews · 313 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Pears (Translator), Brian McGuinness (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 22,763 ratings — published 1921 — 534 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophical Investigations 4.26 avg rating — 15,971 ratings — published 1953 — 183 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor), Denis Paul (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 5,050 ratings — published 1969 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue and Brown Books 4.13 avg rating — 2,464 ratings — published 1935 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Winch (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 1,982 ratings — published 1977 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Linda L. McAlister (Translator), Margarete Schattle (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 1950 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cyril Barrett (editor) 3.83 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1966 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings – The Complete Tractatus, Blue and Brown Books, and On Certainty 4.33 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zettel by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor), G.H. von Wright (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1967 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor/Translator), Georg Henrik von Wright (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1916 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Ludwig Wittgenstein…

Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein (?)

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

2335 likes

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

1669 likes

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: life, philosophy

896 likes

See all Ludwig Wittgenstein's quotes »

Polls

Which one is your favorite philosopher?

If it is one that is not on the list, comment below!

Friedrich Nietzsche

95 votes, 9.0%

Albert Camus

72 votes, 6.9%

Karl Marx

54 votes, 5.1%

Soren Kierkegaard

47 votes, 4.5%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

41 votes, 3.9%

Aristotle

39 votes, 3.7%

Immanuel Kant

38 votes, 3.6%

Plato

37 votes, 3.5%

Marcus Aurelius

34 votes, 3.2%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

31 votes, 2.9%

Gilles Deleuze (write-in)

31 votes, 2.9%

Jean-Paul Sartre

29 votes, 2.8%

cumdump (write-in)

29 votes, 2.8%

Thomas Aquinas

26 votes, 2.5%

yes (write-in)

24 votes, 2.3%

Arthur Schopenhauer (write-in)

24 votes, 2.3%

spinoza (write-in)

23 votes, 2.2%

Simone de Beauvoir

22 votes, 2.1%

Fyodor dostoevsky (write-in)

21 votes, 2.0%

René Descartes

19 votes, 1.8%

Augustine of Hippo

18 votes, 1.7%

Socrates (write-in)

17 votes, 1.6%

Jesus of Nazareth (write-in)

17 votes, 1.6%

David Hume

15 votes, 1.4%

Martin Heidegger

15 votes, 1.4%

Jordan Peterson (write-in)

15 votes, 1.4%

Jesus (write-in)

14 votes, 1.3%

Hannah Arendt

11 votes, 1.0%

José Ortega y Gasset

11 votes, 1.0%

Epictetus (write-in)

11 votes, 1.0%

Bertrand Russell (write-in)

9 votes, 0.9%

Carl Jung (write-in)

9 votes, 0.9%

Olavo de Carvalho

8 votes, 0.8%

Julius Evola (write-in)

8 votes, 0.8%

Ibn Sina (write-in)

8 votes, 0.8%

Simone Weil (write-in)

8 votes, 0.8%

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

7 votes, 0.7%

Aristotle (write-in)

7 votes, 0.7%

Buddha (write-in)

6 votes, 0.6%

Sigmund Freud (write-in)

6 votes, 0.6%

Slavoj Zizek (write-in)

6 votes, 0.6%

Mário Ferreira dos Santos

5 votes, 0.5%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

wine (write-in)

5 votes, 0.5%

Roger Scruton

4 votes, 0.4%

Charles Darwin (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Ayn Rand (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Kosov (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Serb (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Hypatia

3 votes, 0.3%

Maimonides (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Rene Guenon (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Euclid (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Alfred Whitehead (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Judith Butler (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Eric Voegelin

2 votes, 0.2%

William James (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Thomas Hobbes (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Albert Einstein (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Francis Bacon (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Alan Watts (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Edmund Husserl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Jacques Derrida (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Max Stirner (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Michel Foucault (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Michael Oakeshott

1 vote, 0.1%

John Dewey (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Henri Bergson (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

George Berkeley (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Heraclitus (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Teilhard de Chardin (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Parmenides (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Democritus (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Lucretius (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Niccoló Machiavelli

1 vote, 0.1%

Paul Preciado (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Diogenes (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

immanuel kant (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Seneca (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Joseph Campbell (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Gottfried Leibniz (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

George Santayana (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Voltaire (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Jeremy Bentham (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

B. F. Skinner (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Karl Popper (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

1051 total votes

18 comments

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Challenge: 50 Books: Whitney's 50 for 2010!	24	213	Dec 26, 2010 10:22PM
100+ Books in 2026: Meghan's 2010 List	100	451	Dec 31, 2010 11:37PM
Theologians that ...: What Book Besides the Bible Impacted Your Faith?	11	87	Mar 18, 2011 02:50PM
The Life of a Boo...: ~ellie's individual challenge 2015~	139	141	Aug 22, 2015 07:50AM
The Reading For P...: * A Literary Diary - what happened today in literary history?	955	180	Oct 15, 2015 11:51AM
Mount TBR 2016: Nora's first climb to Mount Ararat	3	26	Nov 26, 2015 04:28AM
100+ Books in 2026: Genndy's 101 books challenge in 2016	102	53	Dec 31, 2016 06:57AM
21st Century Lite...: Holidays	604	386	Jan 10, 2017 10:30PM
Let's Talk About ...: Anything Goes	1510	286	Apr 27, 2017 04:26PM

More…