
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Edición Comentada de Aniversario 1922-2022
ByLudwig WittgensteinSergio Torres-Martínez
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The present Spanish language anniversary edition, in contrast to Luciano Bazzocchi’s
English Centenary Edition (2021), does not seek to revivify the interest for the Tractatus
as a scientific achievement. Rather my goal as the translator and
commentator of the book is to introduce a huge quotation mark after the relevance
of the book as a source of insightful scientific reflection. ndeed, the Tractatus's
real value for philosophy and science-making in general is put to the test. For one
thing, the Wittgenstein of 1922 espoused a radical, anti-psychological stance that
invalidates many of the alleged accomplishments of this manuscript-book. Having
logics as a solvent for philosophical embellishment with language was simply a
means to an end for Wittgenstein namely, to eliminate any “subjective noise” from
the process of knowledge construction, his stated goal being to reduce philosophy
to a system of laws (see remark 6.341, 6.342). This ideology of progress by logics
(6.37), a glorification of seeing over understanding, endorses a view by which
good science is precisely all that which can be reduced to the laws of physics and
Newtonian mechanics. Seen from our modern vantage point, this conceptual error
is understandable. Notwithstanding, one cannot but question the pervasiveness of
such ideas, and the ungrounded endorsement of many researchers looking for a
philosophical anchor, a sort of hidden foundational substance allegedly encoded in
the Tractatus. My point is that this book has exhausted its self-appointed value as
a scientific work (see Wittgenstein's prologue to the book) and, hence, should be
removed from the corpus of scientific scholarship to be relocated in the shelves of
literary idiosyncrasy. As Wittgenstein himself conceded, the Tractatus is nonsensical,
as it fails to go beyond its own wording to explain what logics cannot account for:
creativity and uncertainty. Facts provide glaring evidence to this: despite a century
of studies and (mis)interpretations, the Tractatus remains puzzling and has failed
to yield a single accomplishment outside the field of Tractarian scholarship. And,
since even Frege, the source of many of the Tractarian remarks, deemed this work
an “artistic piece”, rather than a genuine scientific text, I think no further evidence
should be provided at this point to support the thesis driving this edition: scientists,
especially those involved in cognition and embodiment theory
Details
- Publication Date
- Oct 10, 2022
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781387557226
- Category
- Social Science
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edited by: Sergio Torres-Martínez, Translated by: Sergio Torres-Martínez
Specifications
- Pages
- 297
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)