.. You know, it's funny to hear how philosophy departments -- particularly those emphasizing analytic philosophy-- train their students to understand Wittgenstein. What they do is invent an ISM and throw Wittgenstein into this or that ISM. It seems to me that Wittgenstein is the quintessential philosopher who could only properly be understood by biography. And that one would never subscribe to any theory about Wittgenstein without having a scholarly account of two things: (1) his life; and (2) his ideas. If there are two great deficiencies in people who claim to know something about Wittgenstein, it most often is not knowing about his life and not really "getting" his latter-day philosophy. Regards. Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq. Assistant Professor Wright State University Redesigned Website: http://seanwilson.org SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860 Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanwilsonorg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seanwilsonorg New Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html