Word: wittgenstein
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Charles occasionally wrote letters to his son and sent books by Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. "The letters seemed strange and alienating," recalls Lachenmeyer, then a student at the University of Chicago. "Now I've learned what a remarkable exercise in self-control they were." Because during this period his father's illness was clearly getting worse. When Lachenmeyer incautiously asked about his schizophrenia in a 1989 letter, Charles responded by calling him "an arrogant little s___ who needs to have his behind warmed...
...England, the author's relatively minor difficulties, mental, dental and love-related, make the front page of Vogue magazine. At Oxford University, (where every other boy has a leather jacket and a pocket Wittgenstein, where every other haircut resemble's Bono's on the 1983 cover of the "War" album, and everyone pretends to scoff at success) Amis is a normal topic of discussion. I couldn't find a single person at Harvard who had even heard...
...work in many different areas, primarily in philosophy of mind and moral psychology," he said. "Also aesthetics of philosophy, philosophy of art and the philosophy of Wittgenstein--he's a 20th century philosopher...
Much is made of Nauman's use of words. His slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...
...page 145. "This way," he goes, "you can read the book for two minutes, and if anybody asks you how far along you are you can say, 'I'm on 151 -- and it's really flying."' Like we really need help getting through these books. "Hey, this chapter on Wittgenstein's phenomenology is a real stumper. Hand me the dictionary...