All too human …

… Review: Wittgenstein in Cambridge, Letters and Documents 1911-1951 ed. Brian McGuinness — The Dabbler. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Philosophy, for Wittgenstein, was work on oneself. Beginning with hardcore logic (even Russell didn’t really understand the Tractatus, Wittgenstein’s first work), and ending in “speech therapy”, emphasising the ordinary foundations of all language, Wittgenstein’s philosophy tended from mathematics and abstraction, towards the particular and the human.

This is an excellent and insightful piece.