Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading: An Introduction
- 1 Eggshells or Nourishing Yolk? A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian
- 2 Weininger and the Two Wittgensteins
- 3 Sex and Solipsism: Weininger's On Last Things
- 4 Wittgenstein and Weininger: Time, Life, World
- 5 Uncanny Differences: Wittgenstein and Weininger as Doppelgänger
- 6 Weininger and Wittgenstein on “Animal Psychology”
- References
1 - Eggshells or Nourishing Yolk? A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading: An Introduction
- 1 Eggshells or Nourishing Yolk? A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian
- 2 Weininger and the Two Wittgensteins
- 3 Sex and Solipsism: Weininger's On Last Things
- 4 Wittgenstein and Weininger: Time, Life, World
- 5 Uncanny Differences: Wittgenstein and Weininger as Doppelgänger
- 6 Weininger and Wittgenstein on “Animal Psychology”
- References
Summary
Every artist has been influenced by others & shows (the) traces of that influence in his works; but what we get from him is all the same only his own personality.(but what he means to us is all the same only his personality) What is inherited from others can be nothing but egg shells. We should treat the fact of their presence with indulgence, but they will not give us Spiritual nourishment
(CV, 27).Influence, properly understood, refers to nothing less than the reconstruction of genesis of outstanding achievement … rather than to mere intellectual pushing and pulling
(Janik 1995, 62).Did Weininger Influence the Later Wittgenstein?
In 1931 Wittgenstein listed the names of ten thinkers who had influenced him. Here is what he wrote: “I think I have never invented a line of thinking but that it was always provided for me by someone else & I have done no more than passionately take it up for my work of clarification. That is how Boltzmann Hertz Schopenhauer Frege, Russell, Kraus, Loos Weininger Spengler, Sraffa have influenced me” (CV, 16). Commenting on Wittgenstein's list of influences, Georg von Wright writes that the list presents a chronological account, and that it is unlikely that Wittgenstein would have added to it later on in life (von Wright 1982, 213).
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- Wittgenstein Reads Weininger , pp. 29 - 61Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004