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Wittgenstein and Judaism

Name: Wittgenstein and Judaism
Author: Ranjit Chatterjee
ISBN: 9780820472560

by Ranjit Chatterjee

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Overview

This radical new reading suggests that Wittgenstein is best understood as a covert Jewish thinker in times of lethal anti-Semitism. The argument first establishes that there was one Wittgenstein, not an "early" and a "later." By looking afresh at the role of the Bible, God, Augustine, Otto Weininger, and science, among other things, in Wittgenstein's thought, Ranjit Chatterjee shows how well Wittgenstein matches with Jewish tradition because he had internalized talmudic and rabbinic modes of thought.