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WITTGENSTEIN, LANGUAGE, AND POWER A Conversation With Ruper Read

Political Philosophy Podcast

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What's the Narrative of His Intellectual Development?

The most crucial of which is the so-called Philosophical Investigations, a lot of which he worked on very, very, very hard. That's in a good order, more than some of the other later work. The narrative of his intellectual development goes something like, when he was young, he was a knight who believed that words have exact meanings and can be said exactly. And then as he matured, he realized obviously words are defined by their relationship with other words,.That words can mean many different things, and that language is a sort of communal good. But yeah, all of that comes from posthumous work.

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