ON THE TRAIL TO WITTGENSTEIN’S HUT: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSPHICUS
Book ID/图书代码： 13149010B41501
English Summary/英文概要： One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in this imaginative work. Oxaal picks up on themes developed in an earlier work of his on Jews, Anti-Semitism and Culture in Vienna, adding to it special issues concerning Wittgenstein’s experiences in Norway in 1913-14, where he worked on ideas that were completed during the war. Oxaal situates the great philosopher in time, place, and attitude, showing how his personal background came to bear on the writing of the Tractatus. Wittengenstein has often been criticized for traces of solipsism and even mysticism, and Oxaal also examines these issues in a volume that integrates ethnography, nationality, and cultural studies.
Oxaal sheds new light on the theme of Wittgenstein’s Jewishness, and develops a new appreciation of the Wittgenstein family and Wittgenstein’s better-known years in Vienna. The author is unsparing in his observations about racism and pessimism in Berlin and Great Britian during the period in which Wittgenstein worked and studied at Cambridge.
The writing of the Tractatus spanned the First World War. In the period immediately after its completion, Wittgenstein found himself in The Hague where he was in discussions and disputes with Bertrand Russell. Oxaal covers these problems sensitively and with an appreciation of ambiguities in the life of a great philosopher and the confusions caused by a post-war change in fortunes--personal and familial. This work of an eminent social scientist and historian may not be the final statement on Wittgenstein, but it most certainly must be considered in any serious assessments of an iconic figure of the twentieth century.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 路德维希·维特根斯坦是二十世纪最具影响力的哲学家，他和他的逻辑哲学论对这个世界作出了极大的贡献。Oxaal抓住了他早期在犹太人问题、反种族歧视和越南文化上的工作，加入了维特根斯坦1913年-1914年在挪威时的经历，当时他在研究战争问题。Oxaal展现了这位伟大的哲学家所处的时代、地点和态度，告诉世人他创作出逻辑哲学论时的背景是如何的。维特根斯坦常常因为唯我论和神秘论而遭到质疑，Oxaal也从人种论、国籍和文化论的角度研究了这些问题。
Oxaal在维特根斯坦对犹太民族的研究上提出了新的观点，并发收集了维特根斯坦家族和他在越南时期的挚友的观点。作者也毫无顾忌地谈到了维特根斯坦在剑桥做研究时柏林和英国所盛行的种族主义和悲观主义。
创作逻辑哲学论的时候时值一次世界大战。战争结束后，维特根斯坦在荷兰海牙与Bertrand Russell展开了一场争论。Oxaal敏锐地指出了当时的问题所在，还有这位哲学家的矛盾之处，以及战后人们的生活发生了何种变化。没有一个社会研究者或历史学家能对维特根斯坦下最终的定论，但是他无疑是二十世纪哲学家的代表人物。(兼职翻译-LN)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Ivar Oxaal在加利福尼亚、圭亚那大学教书，也是Russell Sage基金会和亨特学院的老师。他从赫尔大学的欧洲人类学和社会学学院退休。他曾出版多部著作，包括：《Race and Revolutionary Consciousness》、《Jews, Anti-Semitism and Culture in Vienna》和《The Jews of Pre-1914 Vienna》。 Ivar Oxaal taught at the University of California, Davis, The University of Guyana, and was a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation and Hunter College. He is a retired member of the staffs of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Department of European Studies at the University of Hull. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Race and Revolutionary Consciousness; Jews, Anti-Semitism and Culture in Vienna; and The Jews of Pre-1914 Vienna.
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