Ludwig Wittgenstein

[+ Avalon]

http://gayinfluence.blogspot.com/2012/04/ludwig-wittgenstein.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

 

I'm not familiar with him. But he was gay.

[Rudynate]

One of the things he concerned himself with was language and how our use of language affects how we live and who we are. A large part of the reason you are the person you are and you have the life you have is the way you talk about yourself and your life. There was quite a bit of interest in him in the late 70s-early 80s.

[Quincy_7]

He had the dubious honour of attending primary school with Hitler.

[Rudynate]

He had the dubious honour of attending primary school with Hitler.

 

I have never been sure how close his association with Hitler was. But it always comes up whenever his name comes up.

[bnm73]

Wittgenstein was a beery swine

who was just as schloshed as Schlagel.

 

--Bruce's Philosopher's Song

 

----Monty Python

[+ WilliamM]

I have never been sure how close his association with Hitler was. But it always comes up whenever his name comes up.

 

I was not aware until now. Let's hope for a future where the first posts about him are not gay or Hitler.

[+ Charlie]

He had the dubious honour of attending primary school with Hitler.

That is a misleading description, since he started at the Realschule in Linz the same year that Hitler dropped out, and both were 16 years old at the time. Also, they were from very different social classes; Wittgenstein was a boarding student (his wealthy family lived in Vienna) while Hitler was a day student. Wittgenstein needed a lot of private tutoring, because he arrived unprepared for the standard courses, so he probably didn't even have the same classes as Hitler, who had been a student for a few years. It's unlikely that they had any kind of personal relationship.

 

Nevertheless, once Wittgenstein became a kind of cult figure in intellectual circles, his opponents were always looking for some Hitlerian connection.

Edited September 23, 2018 by Charlie

[MsGuy]

Interesting that three of his brothers were also homosexual.