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SUNY Series in Philosophy Robert C. Neville, Editor
Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language
A Study of Viennese Positivism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Russell Nieli
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1987 State University of New York
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Nieli, Russell, 1948 Wittgenstein: from mysticism to ordinary language.
(SUNY series in philosophy) Includes index. 1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. 2. Logical positivism. I. Title. II. Series. B3376. W564N53 198719286-23144 ISBN 0-88706-397-7 ISBN 0-88706-398-5 (pbk.)
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To My Mother
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I have much to tell you that is of interest. I leave here today after a fortnight's stay, during a week of which Wittgenstein was here, and we discussed his book every day. I came to think even better of it than I had done; I feel sure it is really a great book, though I do not feel sure it is right...
I had felt in his book a flavour of mysticism, but was astonished when I found that he has become a complete mystic. He reads people like Kierkegaard and Angelus Silesius, and he seriously contemplates becoming a monk. It all started from William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, and grew (not unnaturally) during the winter he spent alone in Norway before the war, when he was nearly mad. Then during the war a curious thing happened. He went on duty to the town of Tarnov in Galicia, and happened to come upon a bookshop, which, however, seemed to contain nothing but picture postcards. However, he went inside and found that it contained just one book: Tolstoy on The Gospels. He bought it merely because there was no other. He read it and re-read it, and thenceforth had it always with him, under fire and at all times. But on the whole he likes Tolstoy less than Dostoevski (especially Karamazov). He has penetrated deep into mystical ways of thought and feeling, but I think (though he wouldn't agree) that what he likes best in mysticism is its power to make him stop thinking. I don't much think he will really become a monkit is an idea, not an intention. His intention is to be a teacher. He gave all his money to his brothers and sisters, because he found earthly possessions a burden. I wish you had seen him...
BETRAND RUSSELL (LETTER TO LADY OTTOLINE MORRELL, 20 DECEMBER 1919, THE HAGUE)
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Contents
Preface
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I Positivism and Metaphysics: The Vienna Circle and the Dispute over the Nothing
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The Vienna Circle
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Heidegger's Nothing and the Experience of Radical Derealization-Depersonalization
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Freak-out in a French Town: Sartre and the Nothing
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The Nothing and the Christian Purgatorial Night
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Who's on First?
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II Metaphysics as Profanation: Wittgenstein Reconsidered
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