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Hey /lit/
Anyone want to start up a Wittgenstein reading group?
Im moving to Germany, and I would like to practice my German, and I thought maybe I could do so by re-reading Wittgenstein. I've read and re-read 12 of Wittgenstein's books. Three or four years ago 8 or so of us on /lit/ had a Wittgenstein reading group going, where we would read parts of "On Certainty" and discuss them in an irc chat. I would build a little agenda of points people wanted to talk about and we would regroup and discuss weekly. Thats just how we did things back then, we could do things however now.
Anyone interested? What work by Wittgenstein would you like to read?
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I just made a discord chat too, if you would like to join and talk there: https://discord.gg/q8VkR4m
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I'd love to read Philosophical Investigations. I'd be down to read it and the H&B commentary and try (as I might) to clarify stuff for people who don't want to bother with the commentary on the first pass.
I'd also want to read On Certainty and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, if people are up for it. I think both are pretty short.
I could fairly seriously commit to it, starting next week or so.
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>>9765753
>On Certainty and Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
Those are my favs from Wittgenstein. On Certainty is a good choice because its short and doesnt build off other works so much, but I would love to re-read Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. That one was great.
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>>9765753
>reading the Hacker and his ex-lackey commentary
don'tdothis -- read Stern or Stroud or Diamond or Goldfarb or, better yet, no secondary literature whatsoever
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>>9765793
> no secondary literature whatsoever
Yeah thats kind of my opinion too.
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>>9765713
just hopped in the discord
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Autism and /soc/ all neatly rolled into one I see.
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I'm down.
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>>9765713
B-but we're full!
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Current consensus is to read Philosophical Investigations. Still, if youd like to read something else make yourself heard.
I made some straw polls to help determine when we should meet and how often we should read.
When should we meet? Please double check your time zone relative to the GMT time. http://www.strawpoll.me/13460860
How often? Weekly or biweekly?
http://www.strawpoll.me/13460869
How much should we read per week/biweek?
http://www.strawpoll.me/13460934
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I just got the blue and brown books
Haven't read any Witty before
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