Pynchon and postmodernism

[davemarc]

From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
> With Wittgenstein you have continually tried to gloss over the fact that
the
> Tractatus did, and was always meant to, pave the way for the
Investigations.
>
This might give subscribers the impression that Wittgenstein wrote the
Tractatus expecting to follow it with the Investigations. As far as I know,
Wittgenstein did not do so. After the Tractatus was published in the early
1920s, he considered reactions to it, devoted more of his own thoughts to a
variety of philosophical issues, and came up with the observations
posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations in the 1950s.

Looking back, he likened the Tractatus to a ladder he could kick away,
having used it to reach the level of thought represented by Philosophical
Investigations. I believe he was surprised by the realization. I'd be
interested in seeing documentation that suggests otherwise.

d.