Wittgenstein

  • Drama
  • History
  • Comedy
3/26/1993
69
NR

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, 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 of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Told by way of some theatrical style sketches, this quite engagingly depicts not only the life of the acclaimed philosopher but it also shines an entertaining light on just what philosophy actually might be. I say might be because what is clear between himself (latterly Karl Johnson), Bertrand Russell (Michael Gough) and John Maynard Keynes (John Quentin) is that nothing is definite. His thrust centres around the limitation of language as a means of expression, and though Ill admit to most of the theories going six feet over my head, its presented in quite an intriguing fashion. Is it all substantial or just emperors new clothes? On the personal front, he is gay and has what appears to be a shared relationship with Johnny (Kevin Collins) - ...

    January 5, 2026

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