Goethe and Wittgenstein
M. W. Rowe
Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Institute of Philosophy
The influence of Goethe on Wittgenstein is just beginning to ciated. Hacker and Baker,' Westphal,2 Monk3, and Haller4 drawn attention to significant affinities between the two men's and the number of explicit citations of Goethe in Wittgenstein's supports the idea that we are not dealing simply with a matter lying similarities of aim and method, but of direct and major These scholarly developments are encouraging because they place Wittgenstein's work within an important tradition letters which goes far beyond his contemporaries and immediate bears in Vienna; and they show that Wittgenstein's profound literature and music is ceasing to be merely a matter of biographical anecdote, and is being used to illuminate some of the most central of his work