Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Philosopher of language, author of the 'Tractatus' and 'Philosophical Investigations'.
1889, Vienna, Austria — 1951, Cambridge, England
Austria · England
Ludwig Wittgenstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Philosopher of language, author of the 'Tractatus' and 'Philosophical Investigations'.
Wittgenstein was one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of language and logic, author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and the posthumous Philosophical Investigations (1953), which reshaped analytic philosophy. Three of his four grandparents were born into Jewish families; the family had converted to Christianity and he was baptized Catholic, but he was acutely conscious of his Jewish ancestry and reflected on it in his notebooks.
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Philosopher of language, author of the 'Tractatus' and 'Philosophical Investigations'.
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