![]() ![]() I had felt in his book a flavour of mysticism, but was astonished when I found that he has become a complete mystic. I came to think even better of it than I had done I feel sure it is really a great book, though I do not feel sure it is right…. I leave here today after a fortnight’s stay, during a week of which Wittgenstein was here, and we discussed his book everyday. ![]() I have much to tell you that is of interest. The letter is an invaluable resource for our understanding of Wittgenstein’s essentially religio-spiritual personality and his general frame of mind during, and shortly before, the First World War, when he was developing his basic Tractarian ideas. We possess an extraordinary letter from Bertrand Russell to Lady Ottoline Morell that was written in the winter of 1919 after Russell had met with Wittgenstein in Holland to discuss his Tractatus manuscript. The book was written during the war years 1914-1918, a period of great spiritual and existential turmoil in Wittgenstein’s personal life, indications of which can be clearly discerned in parts of the written text. Ludwig Wittgenstein published just one book during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1 which was completed in the summer of 1918, and first appeared in a published form three years later. ![]()
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