Would it be okay to start with philosophical investigations rather

>>8817760
No. It would be intellectually dishonest

>>8817760
Tractatus -> Blue and Brown books -> Philosophical Investigations -> Kripkenstein or pass it over in silence bruh

>>8817760
The Tractacus is fucking ridiculous and Philosophical Investigations is at best mildly interesting.

The man never produced anything of value.

>>8818434
>what continentals actually believe

>>8818428
you can skip the blue and brown books and you can also skip Kripkenstein if what you're looking for is Wittgenstein and not Kripke

read the Tractatus first though

tfw too stupid to understand tractatus

Don't listen to these pseuds, TLP and PI are almost entirely stand-alone works. Starting with PI is actually better imo since it is less obscure and isn't obsolete positivist autism

Absolutely, yeah. Use the Hacker & Baker commentary. Go BACK to the Tractatus much later.

The Tractatus is fine, but there is no middle of the road interpretation of it. There are three or four schools of radically mutually exclusive Wittgenstein interpretation, and thousands of half-interpretive poachings of things he said on top of those. Not only do the former mutually disagree on the Tractatus, they have their own splintered internal schools of thought over it.

Start with PI and On Certainty. By the time you're done those and some supplementary materials, you will have some idea of what stance you are likely to take with the Tractatus, and you can go back and read it with that in mind.

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>>8819859
thank you kind sirs, this is what I had suspected.

>>8819859
This guy knows what's up