I was a philosophy major. I never studied Wittgenstein, for an interesting reason. Posted in the halls of the philosophy teacher's offices was a lengthy article which detailed how it is almost an historical certainty that Wittgenstein was, well, insane. He had a very specific form of a mental problem (the name escapes me) that compelled him to write incomprehensible and ultimately meaningless papers.
Or so they said. It was an interesting article. After reading it, I could never take Wittgenstein seriously.
Perhaps he is representative of the pittfalls of postmodernism.
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I was a philosophy major. I never studied Wittgenstein, for an interesting reason. Posted in the halls of the philosophy teacher's offices was a lengthy article which detailed how it is almost an historical certainty that Wittgenstein was, well, insane. He had a very specific form of a mental problem (the name escapes me) that compelled him to write incomprehensible and ultimately meaningless papers. Or so they said. It was an interesting article. After reading it, I could never take Wittgenstein seriously. Perhaps he is representative of the pittfalls of postmodernism.