[lit-ideas] Re: Wittgenstein / Feyerabend Query
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: John Preston <j.m.preston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:38:44 +0200
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:26 PM, John Preston <j.m.preston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Dear list,
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> Someone recently emailed me with the following query:
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> Is it true that Ludwig Wittgenstein, when he gave his talk to the ‘Kraft
> Circle’, in Vienna (of which Paul Feyerabend was the chair),
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> insisted that the students attending should know the *Tractatus* by
> heart? (This would have been in 1949).
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> Does anyone know where that idea might have come from?
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> (I guess it could be from literature by, or on, Feyerabend, Wittgenstein,
> or Ingeborg Bachmann (who was also present, being supervised by Viktor
> Kraft during the period in question)).
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> (I do realise that the requirement that anyone should know that text *by
> heart* is exceptionally demanding! And that leads me to wonder whether we
> can take this seriously).
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> Regards,
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> John
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> Prof. John Preston,
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> Head of Department,
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> Department of Philosophy,
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> The University of Reading, UK - http://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/
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> Wittgenstein Chronology website:
> http://www.wittgensteinchronology.com/6.html – daily updates on
> Wittgenstein’s activities and thoughts, exactly one hundred years after the
> event.
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> Ratio – a journal of analytic philosophy -
> http://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/research/phil-ratio.aspx
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