Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief
Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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The first thing to be said about this book is that nothing contained herein was written by Wittgenstein himself. The notes published here are not Wittgenstein's own lecture notes, but notes taken down by students, which he neither saw nor checked. It is even doubtful if he would have approved of their publication, as least in their present form. Since, however, they deal with topics only briefly touched upon in his other published writings, and since for some time they have been circulating privately, it was thought best to publish them in a form approved by their authors.

Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-03-21

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780520251816

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In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been compiled from notes taken down at the time by three of the students: Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and James Taylor. They have been supplemented by notes of conversations on Freud (to whom reference was made in the course on aesthetics) between Wittgenstein and Rush Rhees, and by notes of some lectures on religious belief. As very little is known of Wittgenstein's views on these subjects from his published works, these notes should be of considerable interest to students of contemporary philosophy. Further, their fresh and informal style should recommend Wittgenstein to those who find his Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations a little formidable.