Beschreibung:
David G. Stern is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. Bela Szabados is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the Univesity of Regina.
This book explores the various ways in which Wittgenstein absorbed and responded to Weininger's ideas.
1. Introduction: Reading Wittgenstein (on) reading David G. Stern and Béla Szabados; 2. Eggshells or nourishing yolks? A portrait of Wittgenstein as a Weiningerian Béla Szabados; 3. Weininger and the two Wittgensteins Allan Janik; 4. Sex and solipsism: Weininger's On Last Things Steven Burns; 5. Wittgenstein and Weininger: time, life, world Joachim Schulte; 6. Uncanny differences; Wittgenstein and Weininger as Doppelgänger Daniel Steuer; 7. Weininger and Wittgenstein on 'animal psychology' David G. Stern.