{"title":"“Among the omitted stuff, there are many good remarks of a general nature” – On the Making of von Wright and Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value","authors":"Christian Erbacher","doi":"10.1515/SATS-2017-0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper uses archival material to contextualize Georg Henrik von Wright’s making of Vermischte Bemerkungen (Culture and Value), an edition that assembles Wittgenstein’s remarks on cultural topics. Von Wright was particularly interested in these remarks but initially regarded them as too detached from philosophy to be published. In 1967-68, however, he began seeing socio-political questions as belonging to philosophy. He then resumed editing Wittgenstein’s ‘general remarks’ and published them in 1977. Von Wright did not read Culture and Value as a philosophical work, but as a means for helping readers understand Wittgenstein in relation to his times. It is argued that the intention to provide documents enabling readers to recognize the historical Wittgenstein motivated much of von Wright’s work as one of Wittgenstein’s literary executors. Moreover, through making available his own archives, he inspired the same documentary approach to fathom the history of editing Wittgenstein in its historical context.","PeriodicalId":38824,"journal":{"name":"SATS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SATS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/SATS-2017-0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This paper uses archival material to contextualize Georg Henrik von Wright’s making of Vermischte Bemerkungen (Culture and Value), an edition that assembles Wittgenstein’s remarks on cultural topics. Von Wright was particularly interested in these remarks but initially regarded them as too detached from philosophy to be published. In 1967-68, however, he began seeing socio-political questions as belonging to philosophy. He then resumed editing Wittgenstein’s ‘general remarks’ and published them in 1977. Von Wright did not read Culture and Value as a philosophical work, but as a means for helping readers understand Wittgenstein in relation to his times. It is argued that the intention to provide documents enabling readers to recognize the historical Wittgenstein motivated much of von Wright’s work as one of Wittgenstein’s literary executors. Moreover, through making available his own archives, he inspired the same documentary approach to fathom the history of editing Wittgenstein in its historical context.
摘要本文利用档案资料,对乔治·亨里克·冯·赖特(Georg Henrik von Wright)编著的《文化与价值》(Vermischte Bemerkungen)进行语境分析,该版本汇集了维特根斯坦对文化话题的评论。冯·赖特对这些评论特别感兴趣,但最初认为它们太脱离哲学而不宜发表。然而,在1967年至1968年,他开始将社会政治问题视为哲学的范畴。随后,他继续编辑维特根斯坦的《总论》,并于1977年出版。冯·赖特并没有把《文化与价值》当作一本哲学著作来读,而是作为一种帮助读者理解维特根斯坦与他所处时代的关系的手段。有人认为,作为维特根斯坦的文学执行者之一,冯·赖特的大部分工作都是为了提供文件,使读者能够认识到历史上的维特根斯坦。此外,通过提供他自己的档案,他启发了同样的纪录片方法,在历史背景下深入了解维特根斯坦的编辑历史。