Interactive Wittgenstein. Essays in memory of Georg Henrik von Wright (Q5962301)

This volume is dedicated to the memory of the philosopher and Wittgenstein scholar G. H. von Wright, and testifies to his influence and broad range of interests. The first half of the volume is focused on the Frege-Wittgenstein correspondence. \textit{Burton Dreben} and \textit{Juliet Floyd} present a German-English edition of the surviving postcards and letters that Frege wrote to Wittgenstein from 1914 through 1920. Although their philosophical content seems minimal, Floyd draws out several interesting issues in her companion essay ``The Frege-Wittgenstein correspondence: interpretive themes''. These include the broader implications of Frege's inability to understand the opening pages of the \textit{Tractatus} manuscript. The volume continues with a long essay by \textit{Eran Guter} on the differences between Wittgenstein and the composer Schönberg. The volume concludes with three shorter papers by prominent Wittgenstein scholars. \textit{Jaakko Hintikka} reconsiders Wittgenstein's notebooks from October 1929 and what they tell us about Wittgenstein's reasons for rejecting some key parts of his earlier \textit{Tractatus}. Hintikka sees a commitment to a phenomenological language in the \textit{Tractatus}. By late 1929 Wittgenstein no longer sees such a language as basic. \textit{David Pears}' ``Linguistic regularity'' revisits some of the murky claims that Wittgenstein made about rule-following. Finally, \textit{Joachim Schulte}'s ``On a remark by Jukundus'' uses a late literary allusion by Wittgenstein as an occasion to survey his views on religion and the role of religion in philosophy.