Hi Selma,
Wittgenstein is behind Shotter. You need to get to know him. His life
must be appreciated in order to understand his writing. Ray Monk's
biography "Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius" will do this splendidly:
>From The Times Literary Supplement
This is a very satisfying philosophical Life. When I read Bruce Duffy's
excellent novel, The World as I Found It {BRD 1989}, I was convinced
that onlya novel could do justice to this exemplary, almost awesome
life, with its fierce moral beauty and relentless artistic drive. I now
no longer believe that. There is no substitute for unflinching truth.
Ray Monk's biography is a contribution not only to our understanding of
Wittgenstein as philosopher and as person, but of philosophy as finally
confessional when it is truly great.
Take care,
Brian
> Brian,
>
> Another thinker we both admire! Although I am most familiar with him
> through
> his home page and the relationship of his work to The Sociology of
> Culture.
> I haven't yet had a chance to read anything of his except what's on
> his web
> site but I did thoroughly enjoy reading this.I have a couple of
> questions
> about how one might interpret some of what he said and you may just
> want to
> tell me to read the rest of his stuff to get answers, and that's fine
> but
> this article did generate, for me, questions about the relationship of
> what
> he is saying to
>
> the Buddhist idea of 'being in the moment"
>
> Chaos theory- there is a paragraph in which it appears that he is
> saying
> that by 'paying attention' to the moment, which may seem to be without
> order, eventually the order appears.
>
> And I suspect he might be using the 'meeting of a stranger's eyes' as
> a
> metaphor for any situation where we have contact with 'other' which
> would
> include long and intimate conversations, listening to music, enjoying
> and/or
> participating in other art forms, doing mathematics.
>
> Selma
>
>
>
>
>
scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
_______________________________________________
Futurework mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
