||| MICRO | -NOTE | -QUOTE : Wittgensteins “Blue Book” nun in Wien
Wie die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in einer Presseaussendung mitteilt , wurde ein Exemplar des in Cambridge im Rahmen von Ludwig Wittgensteins Vorlesungen entstandenen “Blue Book” kürzlich aus privatem Besitz angekauft : Das ursprünglich titellose , in geringen Stückzahlen vervielfältigte und in blaue Umschläge gebundene Typoskript geht auf Diktate Wittgensteins an einen kleinen Kreis seiner engsten Schüler während seiner Vorlesungen in den Jahren 1933 | 34 zurück .
The Blue Book was dictated between 1933 and 1934, and contains certain themes unaddressed in Wittgenstein’s later works, including deliberations on thinking as operating with signs. An early conception of what would later become known as language-games is present in the text, which represents the first period of Wittgenstein’s thought after 1932, a method of linguistic analysis which would later become ordinary language philosophy. ( Wikipedia )
Typoskript- Seite “Blue Book” © ÖNB ( click to XL )
Auch ausgewählten Kollegen und Freunden vertraute Wittgenstein dieses – wie das “Brown Book” – ursprünglich in englischer Sprache verfasste Vorlesungsmaterial an . So schrieb Wittgenstein ( man beachte die an Selbstaufgabe grenzenden rhetorischen Gesten der Bescheidenheit ) an Bertrand Russell :
Dear Russell
Two years ago, or so, I promised to send you a manuscript of mine. Now the one I am sending you to-day isn’t that manuscript. I’m still pottering about with it, and God knows whether I will ever publish it, or any of it. But two years ago I held some lectures in Cambridge and dictated some notes to my pupils so that they might have something to carry home with them, in their hands if not in their brains. And I had these notes duplicated. I have just been correcting misprints and other mistakes in some of the copies and the idea came into my mind whether you might not like to have a copy. So I’m sending you one. I don’t wish to suggest that you should read the lectures; but if you should have nothing better to do and if you should get some mild enjoyment out of them I should be very pleased indeed. (I think it’s very difficult to understand them, as so many points are just hinted at. They are meant only for the people who heard the lectures.) As I say, if you don’t read them it doesn’t matter at all.yours ever,
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Das von der ÖNB um einen nicht genannten Preis angekaufte Exemplar trägt eine nicht datierte Widmung an Wittgensteins Schwester , Margarethe Stonborough .
Widmung © ÖNB ( click to XL )
Der Volltext des “Blue Book” ist übrigens hier online zu lesen .
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