On one side the somewhat antiquated and bearded philosopher of Das Kapital, on the other side the rich (at least until he gave up his own inheritance) philosopher of family-resemblances. On one side politics and revolution, on the other side language and the mystical. It seems as if there can be no connection at all between those two figures of philosophy (both of which now have in common that they seem quite old-fashioned). However, first occasionally and in the last years more constantly, a growing attention has been devoted to some possible conceptual if not historical commonalities between them. In fact, leaving aside how much Wittgenstein actually read books by Marx, what they have in common (in the case of the former at least from the so-called ‘second’ Wittgenstein) is a peculiar social and anthropological perspective from which ‘philosophical’ problems are addressed, in particular that of language and mind.
MARX, GRAMSCI AND WITTGENSTEIN ON MIND AND LANGUAGE
felice cimatti
2022-01-01
Abstract
On one side the somewhat antiquated and bearded philosopher of Das Kapital, on the other side the rich (at least until he gave up his own inheritance) philosopher of family-resemblances. On one side politics and revolution, on the other side language and the mystical. It seems as if there can be no connection at all between those two figures of philosophy (both of which now have in common that they seem quite old-fashioned). However, first occasionally and in the last years more constantly, a growing attention has been devoted to some possible conceptual if not historical commonalities between them. In fact, leaving aside how much Wittgenstein actually read books by Marx, what they have in common (in the case of the former at least from the so-called ‘second’ Wittgenstein) is a peculiar social and anthropological perspective from which ‘philosophical’ problems are addressed, in particular that of language and mind.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
