In 2022 we celebrate the centenary of the German-English bilingual publication of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus. This temporal distance has had the virtue of helping us to identify interpretations of the content and the underlying meaning or purpose of the Tractatus that were not sufficiently accurate either with the text itself or with the mind of the author. This means that we have already overcome both the neopositivist reading of the Tractatus and the merely analytical reading of the Philosophical Investigations.
We are now in a position to do more justice to the thought of the Viennese philosopher and to reread the Tractatus with the real possibility of understanding it better. What should be taken into account, then, so that this 100-year reading of the Tractatus would be more accurate and could be more useful to us in our lives? We propose the following four points as an initial guide:
- Take into account the question of the limits of language in the Tractatus
- Identify the new limits of language established by Philosophical Investigations
- Get an idea of what is on the other side of the limits of language: mysticism
- Verify the correctness of the three previous points in the literary form of the aphorism
This session, which will be taught by Professor Joan Ordi, is jointly organized by the Faculty of Philosophy of La Salle-URL and the subject Systems of Representation (SDR) of the School of Architecture La Salle-URL (ETSALS ). In addition, the students of the subject will present their audiovisual works on the architectural thoughts of Wittgenstein.
