My perspective in this paper makes sense of all the available data: of the fact that Wittgenstein himself used the word ‘confession' of Fania Pascal's report of Wittgenstein's preoccupations with his Jewishness in the 1930s and his philosophical turn. You might ask what there was that could be a matter for “confession” in all this’ (Rhees, 195). Google Scholar) There is a naïve and protective view expressed by the otherwise insightful Rush Rhees: ‘I am sure he was never worried about his Jewish ancestry and I have never heard of anyone who said Wittgenstein tried to conceal it from him…. Ray Monk's Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius gives a respectful and sympathetic account of this extraordinary man, who has been as much a victim of hyperbolic hearsay since his death in 1951 as he was an object of misplaced awe in his life. (See Pascal's, Fania ‘A Personal Memoir,’ in Rush Rhees, 48–9. Obviously Wittgenstein felt guilty that the had done nothing to correct this misapprehension. What Wittgenstein confessed to Fania Pascal (his Russian language teacher) and a few friends was ‘the crime’ that he allowed people to think that he was three-quarters Aryan and one-quarter Jewish, when in fact the proportion was the exact reverse. Description 'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interleaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's philosophy with his life triumphantly carries out the Wittgensteinian task of 'changing the aspect' of Wittgenstein's work, getting us to. Wittgenstein was three-quarters Jewish- meaning that he had three Jewish grandparents even though they were baptized either as children or as adults. Download Ludwig Wittgenstein: the Duty of Genius PDF.
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