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What should one read before reading him.
Also, does anyone have those stories about the milk and the pussy thing.

>> No.17950284

>>17950268
D&G
Seriously, he isn't that important other than importing bourgeois conti into your anti marxist reading list.

Yes D&G are anti-marxist. try Operaismo.

>> No.17950325

>>17950284
I assume you mean Deleuze and Guattari when you say D&G. If so, what is Operaismo

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>>17950268
>>17950268
Here you go pal. I think because of his interrelation with the ordinary language approach to Philosophy, Wittgenstein (Late Wittgenstein at least) isn't as wrapped up in complex philosophical systems and specialised terminology.

To understand the Early philosophy ie. Tractus. Russell and Frege I imagine. (Plato and Kant might be necessary before Frege)

But if you just want to read Late Wittgenstein ie. Culture and Value and PI, I would argue there's no strictly required reading. Really the language being used is relatively accessible. I think of PI as a series of poetic meditations and examples that seek for you to see the world and philosophy with greater clarity.

>> No.17950420

>>17950381
PS. PI addresses philosophy and language on a foundational level, uprooting the established logical systems of thought. This is part of the reason why it arguably doesn't require as much preparatory reading.

>> No.17950440

>>17950325
Maybe you should refresh yourself at the fountain of the blood of the martyrs of the subservient class. D&G try this but the just suck boss cum. Get a lower complete.

>> No.17951100

>>17950381
Thank you anon. I'm a mathematics guy so I am familiar with the logic part of Frege and Russell but I'll give PI a look first.

>> No.17951112

>>17951100
>so I am familiar with the logic part of Frege and Russell
no you're not. their notation is completely at variance with the one used in most modern textbooks

>> No.17951135

Start with the Greeks.

>> No.17951140

>>17951112
Well I am actually familiar with their notation. Familiar enough to understand why that mess isn't used today. I've read big parts of Principia Mathematica with the retarded dot notation. However, notation is just notation. Russell's theory of descriptions and other elements of his logic are still accepted in modern predicate logic. Frege's begriffschrift is just mordern notation written in implications, negations and universal quantifiers.

>> No.17951161

>>17951140
oh that's cool then. I think you should also read Kierkegaard before jumping into Wittgenstein, Witty thought that Kierkegaard was the greatest mind of the 19th century

>> No.17951174

>>17951161
Alright. Any specific work you'd recommend?

>> No.17951193

>>17950268
Subahibi

>> No.17951311

>>17950381
What is this image?

>> No.17951547

>>17951311
Its what OP requested, a high effort shitpost that presents itself as excerpts from Wittgenstein's biography. Portraying him as a child-like Autist when not philosophising, using funny made up anecdotes.

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>>17950268
This little essay is better than the whole Wittgenstein.

>> No.17951868

>>17950268
You really don't HAVE to read anything before him and you could always read a ton to give the fullest context so figure out how much you want to check out and pick from that. It helps to know Frege and Russell before hand. The Foundations of Arithmetic and The Philosophy of Logical Atomism are helpful I suppose. Other than that, Frege's and Russell's various articles, chief being "Sense and Reference" and "On Denoting" respectively.