Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the great European philosophers and one of the most important of this century. Few thinkers interest and fascinate as he does not only philosophers. His works belong to the world literature beyond the text stock of philosophy. They have influenced writers, artists, psychologists and social scientists. Yet his writings are anything but popularly written. Wittgenstein did not compromise either in his life or in his writing. He was for simplicity, but not for simplifications. The purity and clarity of his thought captivates his readers, but does not take them over. He keeps his distance and invites them to think for themselves. Nothing, however, is quickly understood through his own work on his texts. Some things seem easy and clear, but turn out to be difficult. For both reasons, we can learn from his books m.