We're pleased to announce a very special Philosophy in the Bookshop @philoxophy on 14th March 2026
Host @philosophybites will interview Anthony Gottlieb @N10Egottlieb about his new book on Wittgenstein
Book here
https://t.co/kXZ7QT5bQt
A conversation on the towering self-confidence of the Wittgenstein family, the physicists who sparked some of Ludwig's ideas, music and the inexpressible. and--among other things--why life is maybe not like a pineapple.
"...On his deathbed, he exclaimed: “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” Maybe so, yet you close this wonderful biography thinking that the linguistic philosopher JL Austin summed him up best: “Poor old Witters.” " https://t.co/bCfdHxRJrb
A bubbling cauldron: Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/4hszcTtBjV "In this miraculously well written little book, Gottlieb does something that has certainly not been done before..."
Ray Monk: Preparing for the second coming: Wittgenstein in Vienna 1925-29 as part of Wittgenstein Week: The Wittgenstein Houses, 20-27th October in Vienna.
For full programme and tickets:
https://t.co/kC4yf0EAug
@RowanMoore More on Viennese architecture including, Loos pupil, Paul Engelmann and the house he built with Ludwig Wittgenstein during 'Wittgenstein Week' in October: architecture, design and the Wittgensteins:
https://t.co/kC4yf0EAug
Please get in touch if you would like to know more!
'Architektur verewigt und verherrlicht etwas (denn sie dauert). Sie verherrlicht ihren Zweck.'
'Architecture immortalises and glorifies something (because it endures). It glorifies purpose.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein ca 1947-48
Interior of House Wittgenstein, Vienna.