Ken Butler

Bizarre story of the Austrian philosopher and (mostly) his time in Cambridge is too strange to impart much about Wittgenstein's philosophy unless (perhaps) you already know it. The older and younger Wittgensteins are the most interesting characters. Everyone else comes across as more than a bit unreal, including Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. Only 73 minutes, however, so I was able to get through it! (Nothing here about Wittgenstein's love for detective novels. What a shame.)

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas show more of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius. (fonte: imdb) show less