Philosophische Untersuchungen

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1. muditaNov 2020
   Just as an aside: This seems like a very unfair characterisation of Wittgenstein to me. His writing can be almost mathematical, but it can also be very poetic, playful and funny. Appreciating his writing might be a matter of taste, but it seems clear to me that his writing had a lot of "poetical ambition". How we use language was one of his primary concerns and he clearly cared a lot about how he himself wrote. In Philosophische Untersuchungen I see a lot of warmth in his writing. Often it seems like he is talking very personally to the reader like he would to a friend.

   From quick googling it seems like I am not alone in my view of Wittgenstein as a poetic philosopher, see e.g.

   https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/978019...

   https://www.uib.no/en/news/101796/wittgenstein-poetic-philos...

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2. ofrzetaJan 2019
   Maybe it's worth mentioning that he didn't write most of "his" books apart from the Tractatus and Philosophische Untersuchungen. The others might still be worth reading but they are mostly notes from his students.

   Having studied analytical philosophy in university I also find it interesting that Wittgenstein is seen as a founding father of the analytical movement while his later philosophy can be understood as a refutation of analytical philosophy.

   You have some valid points about the transcendence of philosophy in stopping the pursuit of pseudo-problems. In relation to that there's also a hint in the end of the Tractatus about (the most important?) things that cannot be said but only shown.

   Also I found it funny that he supposedly said that there are more profound insights to be found in the crime stories he read than in the philosophical journal "Mind". (I think that's mentioned in Malcom's book).

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