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This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives. While some chapters focus on the philological and biographical connections of Wittgenstein's reading of Nietzsche, others reflect on the ideas that are implicitly shared by the two thinkers.
List of contents
Introduction: Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Shunichi Takagi and Pascal F. Zambito Part 1: Influence: Wittgenstein reads Nietzsche 1. Wittgenstein Reads Nietzsche: The Roots of Tractarian Solipsism
Nuno Venturinha 2. Schlick, Wittgenstein, and Waismann: Three Responses to Nietzsche
Andreas Vrahimis 3. Philosophy as Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Paul Ernst
Stefan Majetschak 4. Transvaluation and Rectification. Wittgenstein reads Nietzsche and Lichtenberg on Values, Poetry, and Language
Marco Brusotti 5. 'jenseits der Grenze'
- Wittgenstein and Nietzsche on Value and Nonsense
Pascal F. Zambito 6. Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Future Philosophers: The Notion of Truth in Philosophy
Oskari Kuusela Part 2: Dialogues: Philosophical Intersections between Wittgenstein and Nietzsche 7. Philosophical Style: Between Philosophy, Poetry, and Aphoristic Writing
Philip Mills 8. Wittgenstein and Nietzsche on Language and Knowledge
Pietro Gori 9. A Nietzschean Critique of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Quietism
Paul S. Loeb 10. Overcoming Chagrin in Cavell and Nietzsche
Gordon C. F. Bearn 11. A Remark on "the Particular Peace" in Philosophy in Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
Peter K. Westergaard
About the author
Shunichi Takagi is Researcher at Kyoto University and Chief Research Officer of AaaS Bridge. His PhD thesis,
Wittgenstein and the 'Kantian Solution of the Problem of Philosophy' (10 February 1931), recounts Wittgenstein's philosophical development from the
Tractatus up until around 10 February 1931, focusing on his engagement with Russell, Kant, and Ramsey.
Pascal F. Zambito is Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Munich. He was Feodor Lynen Fellow at University of Vienna. His recent publications are "Essayism as a Form of Writing and a Form of Life" (2021) and "Searching in Space vs Groping in the Dark: Wittgenstein on Novelty and Imagination in 1929-30" (2023).
