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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828716203321

Titolo

Friedrich August von Hayek's Draft Biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Text and its History / Allan Janik, Christian Erbacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paderborn, : Brill | mentis, 2020

ISBN

3-95743-797-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Fin de Siecle

Moderne

analytische Philosophie

20. Jahrhundert

Liberalismus

Wiener Kreis

Emigration

Rush Rhees

Elizabeth Anscombe

Georg Henrick von Wright

modernity

analytical philosophy

20th Century

liberalism

Vienna Circle

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [24]-26) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Every student of the twentieth century has heard both of the great Viennese economist Friedrich von Hayek and of the equally great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. But what isn't well known is that the two were distant cousins and that, shortly after Wittgenstein's death in 1951, Hayek set out to write a biography of his cousin. The project was derailed by Wittgenstein family members, who felt it was to soon to



publish such a work. But Hayek's draft acquired an underground readership, and Wittgenstein's biographers have used it extensively.Here finally, is the text of that work itself. Hayek's account has the great merit of being close to its subject; the draft, moreover sheds light, not only on Wittgenstein but on Hayek as well. Allan Janik's elegant afterword makes these links clear. Anyone interested in Wittgenstein or, for that matter, in the thought and culture of the earlier twentieth century, will want to read Christian Erbacher's excellent edition of Hayek's draft biography. - Marjorie Perloff