The later book associated with Wittgenstin, the Philosophical Investigations, is a collection of notes and he moves in that from formality to the informal language of everyday life. Ludwig himself, born at the end of the 19th century, was an important figure for the group of philosophers and mathematicians known as the Vienna Circle, though he wasn't one of their members, he wasn't a joiner, and he was described by his older contemporary, the philosopher Bertrand Russell, as 'the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense and dominating.' Russell knew Wittgenstein at the time of his only published work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a work of formal logic. These days I think we might describe them as seriously dysfunctional. Huge wealth and privilege, multiple suicides, estranged siblings and a general unhappiness were all features of life for the large Wittgenstein clan. I'm Alan Saunders and today on The Philosopher's Zone, the family of the great Viennese philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Alan Saunders: Sometimes it's easy to forget that philosophers now long-dead, once had families, a world beyond the cocoon of their thinking and writing, a life with all the joy and sadness and conflict that a family can provide.
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