Licht und Schatten

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

=Light & Shadow

79 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2004

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.

Reviews

[Elsa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wittgenstein, me encanta. Sin embargo, debo decir que en el apartado "sombra", se me figura algo ingenuo. Pidiendo señales de la nada, el sueño, todo eso. Pero, no es crítica, es parte de lo que trata de demostrar, que sería la creencia y la religiosidad. Por otra parte, en "Luz" demuestra que el hombre, por la cultura, debería trascender, ir más allá de todo lo posible "pasar la luz roja". Linda metáfora, pero creo que actualmente ya no es muy creíble eso de trascender. Creo.