Wittgenstein Day-by-Day: Facebook Page Tracks the Philosopher’s Wartime Experience 100 Years Ago

[Recursion]

http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/wittgenstein-day-by-day.html

Last week we told you about an ambitious video series — The Great War — that will document how World War I unfolded, week-by-week, over a four-year period, from 1914 to 1918. A new video will be released every Thursday, and it will reflect on what happened during the same week 100 years prior. When complete, there should be close to 300 videos in the series.

Today, we’re staying in the same time period, but getting even more micro. Wittgenstein Day-by-Day is a Facebook page that “tracks Wittgenstein’s diary entries as they were written 100 years ago,” writes Levi Asher on his blog Literary Kicks. During World War I, Wittgenstein served on the frontlines in a howitzer regiment in Galicia and was decorated several times for his courage (more on that here). While fighting, he continued writing philosophy — texts that would be gathered in Notebooks, 1914-1916 – while also recording his experiences in his diaries.

This is pretty cool. It kind of reminds me of Descartes, who came up with Cogito ergo sum while a soldier in the 30 Years' War.

[Sherman A1]

1. K&R!

Thanks for posting.

[piniella]

2. :-)

This is very interesting - TY!