Wittgenstein 1914 and 1915 | Online Exhibition

August 1914 KRAKÓW

God be with me! Wartime Diaries

In August 1914 Wittgenstein was assigned to one of the Vistula ships, the Goplana, in Krakow “for the operation of a spotlight”.

The notebook which Wittgenstein used between October 1914 and June 1915.

Georg Trakl in military uniform, about 1912

In the morning in the city to the garrison hospital. There I learned that Trakl died a few days ago! This hit me very hard. How sad, how sad!!! I wrote immediately to Ficker about it. Made errands & then returned to the ship about 6 o’clock. Didn’t do any work. Poor Trakl! ––– ! Thy will be done. ––––.

Wartime diary, 5 November 1914

1915 Sokal

August-September 1915: Beginning of the writing of the Logical Philosophical Treatise

If I had no paper I would write on sand.

Wittgenstein to a friend in WWI.

August 1915: Wittgenstein is assigned to an artillery train as a production engineer.

Wartime Diaries: Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world

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Wittgenstein 1908 – 1912

Wittgenstein moved to Manchester in May 1908, after three semesters studying mechanical engineering

Wittgenstein 1913 – 1914

Wittgenstein designed the house in the spring of 1914, for his next stay in Skjolden. In the meantime, World War I…

Wittgenstein 1918 and 1919

I‘ve written a book called „Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung“ containing all my work of the last 6 years.

Wittgenstein 1920 to 1922

… My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second
part is the important one.

Wittgenstein Tractatus

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus exerted a great influence on various philosophical schools, but especially on the Vienna Circle. Among the members of this circle were