Philosophers and Their Positions—Part on Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
摘要
Schächter’s following account of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s life and intellectual development was published in Judaism and Education in Our Time (יהדות וחינוך בזמן הזה, Dvir, Tel Aviv 1965/66, 161–196). The Hebrew text relies heavily on the material Schächter cites: It draws from George Henrik von Wright’s narration of Wittgenstein’s life and—more importantly—Paul Engelmann’s recollections of his friendship with Wittgenstein. Schächter chooses various passages and themes from these authors to reproduce in Hebrew. While in most places, the structure of Schächter’s Hebrew resembles the German and English texts he builds upon, the emphases in his selections and his wording convey their own tone and meaning. In addition to these adaptions into Hebrew, Schächter presents the central arguments of Wittgenstein’s thought and provides various commentaries throughout the text.