Wittgenstein & the 20th Century: A video
His father was one of the richest men in Europe. The only house he ever owned he built on a cliff in Norway, where much of this video was shot. Three of his brothers killed themselves. And, oh yeah, Ludwig Wittgenstein is often considered the most significant philosopher of the 20th century.
The case can be made that the great intellectual struggle of the 20th century was the struggle of variety, indeterminacy, pastiche and, most of all, humor to subdue often stifling dogma, rigid formulas, pat beliefs, inevitably accepted truth--the struggle, as it might be put, of uncertainty to subdue certainty. One of the more important arenas in which this struggle took place was the mind of the man some consider to be the greatest philosopher of that century: Ludwig Wittgenstein.
