New Philosophical Aspects and the Philological Questions Emerging by Exploring the Digital Edition of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass
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Moira De Iaco
Abstract
The main goals of this paper are to highlight the new philosophical aspects emerging from Wittgenstein’s Nachlass and to analyze some of the philological questions that should be considered by editors and translators of Wittgenstein’s writings and by scholars of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. There are undoubtedly advantages to be had from exploring Wittgenstein’s Nachlass and this contribution will be focused on them. However, there are also some critical issues to be taken into account. They concern Wittgenstein’s way of writing and doing philosophy as well as the status of Wittgenstein’s manuscripts and the history of their publication. The advantages of investigating Wittgenstein’s movements of thought through and across the Nachlass and the resulting critical issues will be argued from the perspective of direct work editing Wittgenstein (e. g., the edition of two discovered letters of 1934 from Wittgenstein to Sraffa) and through the semantic reconstruction of crucial concepts from Wittgenstein’s philosophy. This reconstruction has been realized by the searching of Wittgenstein’s concepts occurrences and the recording and exploration of the nuances of meaning represented by each occurrence within the project to compose a Wittgenstein dictionary from the Nachlass.
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- Titlepages
- Titlepages
- Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
- Table of Contents
- Articles
- Wittgenstein and Repetition
- Über die Assoziation von Namen mit privaten Empfindungen – ein Kommentar zu Wittgensteins Privatsprachenargument (PU 256 – 265)
- „Das Ethische ist kein Sachverhalt“
- Wahrheit in Wittgensteins Spätphilosophie
- Wittgensteins Manuskriptbände aus dem Jahr 1929
- Special Issue: 70 Years of Editing Wittgenstein – History, Challenges and Possibilities
- Special Issue: 70 Years of Editing Wittgenstein – History, Challenges and Possibilities Edited by Jasmin Trächtler
- 70 Years of Editing Wittgenstein – History, Challenges and Possibilities
- Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) of the Wittgenstein Nachlass
- The Copyright Status of Wittgenstein’s Works
- Wittgenstein’s Notebooks, Diaries and Diaristic Remarks
- New Philosophical Aspects and the Philological Questions Emerging by Exploring the Digital Edition of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass
- Die Baumstruktur des Tractatus: Genesis, Lesarten, Editionen
- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
- John Greco: The Transmission of Knowledge.
- James C. Klagge: Tractatus in Context: The Essential Background for Appreciating Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
- Jakub Mácha, Alexander Berg (eds.): Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference.
- Bernhard Ritter: Kant and Post-Tractarian Wittgenstein: Transcendentalism, Idealism, Illusion.
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- Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes / Authors of this Volume
