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Friedrich August von Hayek's draft biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein: the text and its history (edited book)Mentis. 2019.Every student of the twentieth century has heard both of the great Viennese economist Friedrich von Hayek and of the equally great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. But what isn't well known is that the two were distant cousins and that, shortly after Wittgenstein's death in 1951, Hayek set out to write a biography of his cousin. The project was derailed by Wittgenstein family members, who felt it was to soon to publish such a work - especially one like Hayek's, so candid about his cousin's diffi…Read more
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4Unser Denken bleibt gefragt: Web 3.0 und Wittgensteins NachlassIn Walter Feigl & Sascha Windholz (eds.), Wissenschaftstheorie, Sprachkritik und Wittgenstein: In memoriam Elisabeth und Werner Leinfellner, De Gruyter. pp. 135-146. 2011.
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9On Continuity: Rush Rhees on Outer and Inner Surfaces of BodiesPhilosophical Investigations 40 (1): 3-30. 2017.This article presents an edited excerpt from a hitherto unknown fragmentary treatise by Rush Rhees. In the treatise, Rhees gives his account of the problem of continuity that he had started elaborating before he became acquainted with Wittgenstein. The excerpt, which contains Rhees' original distinction between outer and inner surfaces of bodies, builds on Brentano's theory of the continuum and his doctrine of plerosis. This treatment of continuity sheds light on Rhees' early philosophical devel…Read more
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31Editorial Approaches to W ittgenstein's Nachlass: Towards a Historical AppreciationPhilosophical Investigations 38 (3): 165-198. 2014.Building on the unpublished correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein's literary executors Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright, this paper sketches the historical development of different editorial approaches to Wittgenstein's Nachlass. Using the metaphor of a ladder, it is possible to distinguish seven significant “rungs” or “steps” in the history of editing Wittgenstein's writings. The paper focuses particularly on the first four rungs, elucidating how Rhees, Anscombe a…Read more
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4Wittgenstein's Heirs and EditorsCambridge University Press. 2020.Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. But the books in which his philosophy was published – with the exception of his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – were posthumously edited from the writings he left to posterity. How did his 20,000 pages of philosophical writing become published volumes? Using extensive archival material, this Element reconstructs and examines the way in which Wittgenstein's writings were edited over more than fif…Read more
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16“Ludwig Wittgenstein” – A BBC Radio Talk by Elizabeth Anscombe in May 1953Nordic Wittgenstein Review 8 (1-2): 225-240. 2019.Presented here is the transcript of a BBC radio broadcast by Elizabeth Anscombe that was recorded in May 1953 – the month when Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations appeared in England for the first time. In her radio talk, Anscombe provides some biographical and philosophical background for reading the Philosophical Investigations. She addresses the importance of the Tractatus and of the literary qualities of Wittgenstein’s writing. Anscombe warns that it would be fruitless to adopt sloga…Read more
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16“Good” Philosophical Reasons for “Bad” Editorial Philology? On Rhees and Wittgenstein'sPhilosophical GrammarPhilosophical Investigations 42 (2): 111-145. 2019.Using new archival material, this article reconstructs the editorial history of Philosophical Grammar, an edition that Rush Rhees crafted from Wittgenstein's papers. Contrasting the often‐held view that Rhees, in editing Philosophical Grammar, arbitrarily interfered with Wittgenstein's Big Typescript, the article illuminates the work, motives and reasons that underlie Rhees’ editing. Although recent philological evidence supports his editorial decisions, Rhees, at the time, made them based on hi…Read more
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1Analysis and Interpretation – Two kinds of clarification in Wittgensteins early and middle periodNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 43 (4): 296-308. 2008.
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16This paper uses archival material to contextualize Georg Henrik von Wright’s making of Vermischte Bemerkungen (Culture and Value), an edition that assembles Wittgenstein’s remarks on cultural topics. Von Wright was particularly interested in these remarks but initially regarded them as too detached from philosophy to be published. In 1967-68, however, he began seeing socio-political questions as belonging to philosophy. He then resumed editing Wittgenstein’s ‘general remarks’ and published them …Read more
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4›Gute‹ philosophische Gründe für ›schlechte‹ EditionsphilologieIn Claus Zittel, Axel Pichler & Martin Endres (eds.), Textologie: Theorie Und Praxis Interdisziplinärer Textforschung, De Gruyter. pp. 257-298. 2017.
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11Brief aus NorwegenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 65 (3): 574-588. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 65 Heft: 3 Seiten: 574-588.
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26The Logbook of Editing Wittgenstein's "Philosophische Bemerkungen"Nordic Wittgenstein Review 6 (1): 105-147. 2017.Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright were Wittgenstein’s literary heirs and edited many posthumous volumes from Wittgenstein’s writings. Their archived correspondence provides unique insights into this editorial work. The selection of letters written by Rhees which is presented here stems from an early phase of his editorial endeavour to shed light on Wittgenstein’s philosophical development between the _TLP_ and the _PI_. The letters were written between 1962 and 1964, in …Read more
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22On Continuity: Rush Rhees on Outer and Inner Surfaces of BodiesPhilosophical Investigations 39 (4): 3-30. 2016.This article presents an edited excerpt from a hitherto unknown fragmentary treatise by Rush Rhees. In the treatise, Rhees gives his account of the problem of continuity that he had started elaborating before he became acquainted with Wittgenstein. The excerpt, which contains Rhees' original distinction between outer and inner surfaces of bodies, builds on Brentano's theory of the continuum and his doctrine of plerosis. This treatment of continuity sheds light on Rhees' early philosophical devel…Read more
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39A Passport Photo of Two: On an Allusion in the Pictures of Wittgenstein and von Wright in CambridgeNordic Wittgenstein Review 3 (1): 139-149. 2014.The article draws a connection between three items preserved at the von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Helsinki (WWA), namely a book by Wilhelm Busch and two copies of the photos of von Wright and Wittgenstein in Cambridge taken by Knut Erik Tranøy in 1950, by suggesting that the photos contain an allusion by Wittgenstein
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1067The First Nine Months of Editing Wittgenstein - Letters from G.E.M. Anscombe and Rush Rhees to G.H. von WrightNordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (1): 195-231. 2015.The National Library of Finland and the Von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Helsinki keep the collected correspondence of Georg Henrik von Wright, Wittgenstein’s friend and successor at Cambridge and one of the three literary executors of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass. Among von Wright’s correspondence partners, Elizabeth Anscombe and Rush Rhees are of special interest to Wittgenstein scholars as the two other trustees of the Wittgenstein papers. Thus, von Wright’s collections he…Read more
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7Can one sentence say what another sentence can only show? Perspectives on the discussion of Tractatus Logico-philosophicus 4.1212 in the light of the literary features of the work (review)Wittgenstein-Studien 3 (1): 81-93. 2012.
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170Wittgenstein and His Literary ExecutorsJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (3). 2016.Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik von Wright and Elizabeth Anscombe are well known as the literary executors who made Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy available to all interested readers. Their editions of Wittgenstein’s writings have become an integral part of the modern philosophical canon. However, surprisingly little is known about the circumstances and reasons that made Wittgenstein choose them to edit and publish his papers. This essay sheds light on these questions by presenting the story of…Read more
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14Editionspraxis, Philosophie und Zivilisationskritik: Die Geschichte von Wittgensteins Vermischten BemerkungenWittgenstein-Studien 6 (1). 2015.