Despite this, Wittgenstein's influence on contemporary political philosophy has been far-reaching. His few remarks on political and moral philosophy were outright hostile to the enterprise of normative theorizing. Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he published nothing on political philosophy. Clearly, this is not easily done, but it is a necessary task in the historical reconstruction of Wittgenstein's life and work. To do so, we have to take a second look upon what he actually wrote, not only in the already published material, but in the entire Nachlass. In order to write Wittgenstein's biography, we have to take seriously the coherence of his thought throughout his life, and not let convenient philosophical ideologies be our guidance in drawing up a “Wittgensteinian philosophy”. To comprehend the arguments against the metamathematical programme, and to appreciate how profoundly the philosophical method employed actually shaped the content of Wittgenstein's philosophy, it is necessary to make an intellectual biographical reconstruction of their philosophical framework, tracing the Hertzian elements in the early as well as in the later writings.

In effect, Wittgenstein's controversial response to David Hilbert and Kurt Gödel was deeply influenced by Hertz and can only be fully understood when seen in this context. Logical paradoxes and foundational problems including those of mathematics were seen as pseudo-problems requiring clarity instead of solution. Wittgenstein applied this method successfully to critical problems in logic and mathematics throughout his life. Pulitzer Prize winners and never-before-published writers are equals during our manuscript evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print works that promise to be, in the famous words of Ezra Pound, 'news that stays news.' Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has won numerous awards and earned an international reputation, and selections from its pages are regularly reprinted in the nation’s most prestigious prize anthologies.The German physicist Heinrich Hertz played a decisive role for Wittgenstein's use of a unique philosophical method. Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious readers-and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and sustains repeated attention and consideration. Each quarterly issue offers a diverse, thoughtfully orchestrated gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews, and visual art. Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review is one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters.

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