Archive for the Marxism category

Wittgenstein’s philosophy as politics

Posted on April 18th, 2007 in Ernest Gellner, Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Marxism, Piero Sraffa, Wittgenstein, irrationalism, positivism.

Robert Vienneau’s blog Thoughts on Economics has an entry Wittgenstein and Marxism on my Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology: An Annotated Bibliography. More importantly, Vienneau provides his own bibliography Wittgenstein and Soviet Communism, mostly in connection with Piero Sraffa and referencing articles from New Left Review. There is also this noteworthy article: Robinson, Christopher C. (2006). “Why [...]

Paremiology

Posted on April 13th, 2007 in Esperanto, Marxism, ideology, popular culture, pragmatism, wisdom.

I just discovered that paremiology is the study of proverbs. Without naming this as a field of study myself, in one way or another I’ve occupied myself with this genre. Perhaps my first contact with what others had to say about it was through Esperanto. Zamenhof, who created the language, authored a book, Proverbaro, which [...]

Wittgenstein dramatized

Posted on March 24th, 2007 in Marxism, Wittgenstein, cinema, drama.

Eagleton, Terry; Jarman, Derek; Butler, Ken. Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, the Derek Jarman Film. London: BFI Publishing, 1993. The actual video is as a practical matter inaccessible, but it is listed for sale: Wittgenstein (1993). Wittgenstein is a figure of fascination and admiration for many, but the more I learn about him, the more [...]