THE TRACTATUS AND THE VIENNA CIRCLE
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 positivist philosophers and mathematicians, including Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann, Rudolf Carnap and Herbert Feigl, who were enthusiastic about Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
Moritz Schlick, © ÖNB
Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, 1920s © Family Stonborough
Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein’s apartment in the Palais Schönborn in Vienna, where Ludwig Wittgenstein and Moritz Schlick first met over lunch in February 1927. © Family Stonborough
Frank Plumpton Ramsey, the first translator of the Tractatus into English. © J. M. Keynes Papers archive at King‘s College
November 1922:
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is published in a German – English version.