In the shadow of Goethe: Wittgenstein's intellectual project

European Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 447-457

  McGuinness, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1017/S1062798702000364     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See the title essay in his Chor und Gesetz, W. in Kontext, Suhrkamp Frankfurt/Main 1990. He has also kindly shown me a 2002 paper ‘Goethe and Wittgenstein on Morphology’, which develops some of the points in that earlier essay (itself first published in Italian, see Intersezioni 1982, pp. 99–124).
2. L. Wittgenstein, ‘Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough’, in: J. Klagge and A. Nordmann (eds.) (1993) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions 1912–1951 (Cambridge: Hackett), p. 131
3. P. Engelmann (1967) Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir [LE henceforth] (Oxford), p. 81.
4. L. Wittgenstein (1980) Culture and Value [C&V henceforth] (Oxford), p. 9. I have modified the published translation, ‘Nietzsche passed by them’, which seems almost the opposite of the required meaning.
5. C&V, p. 34.
6. L. Wittgenstein (1953) Philosophical Investigations (Oxford), p. 186.
7. L. Wittgenstein (1995) Cambridge Letters [CL henceforth] (Oxford), p. 19: a letter to Russell of 16 August 1912.
8. I have adapted the translation of J. Whaley in Goethe (1974) West-Eastern Divan (London).
9. See B. McGuinness (1988) Ludwig Wittgenstein, A Life, Young Ludwig [YL henceforth] (London), p. 222.
10. Elsewhere I have tried to show the non-theistic character of the mysticism of the Tractatus, see B. McGuinness (2002) Approaches to Wittgenstein (London), pp. 140–159.
11. Here I adopt the translation of E. C. Dowden (1914) West-Eastern Divan (London).
12. There is some evidence that the reading of this tract was the occasion of Wittgenstein's remarks about Nietzsche in his First World War notebooks. See YL, p. 225.
13. Translation of Pythian 10.30 by Sir John Sandys (1968) Pindar (London) (Loeb Classical Library).
14. G. H. von Wright, in an article with that title in G. H. von Wright (1951) Mind, 60.
15. B. Russell (1968) Autobiography, Vol.2 (London), p. 99
16. CL, p. 14.
17. Eva Picardi (2001) Rorty, Sorge and truth, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9(3), 431–439, brings out well the importance of this concept for forming a judgement on the recent history of philosophy.
18. MS 119, p. 82 (Band XI, this passage written in 1937)
19. ll.11478–9 in David Luke's (1994) translation of Faust, Part Two (Oxford: Oxford World Classics). As misremembered by Wittgenstein the phrase would mean ‘Miserable creatures!’
20. In T. J. Reed (1984) Wittgenstein (Oxford: Past Masters series) p. 105. The reference is, of course, to the second sentence of Goethe's autobiographical Poetry and Truth: ‘Die Konstellation war glücklich ….’
21. LE, p. 21