Declining decline: Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):253 – 264 (1988)
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Abstract

Granted a certain depth of accuracy in citing an aspect of Spengler as an enactment of an aspect of Wittgenstein's thought, Wittgenstein's difference from Spengler should have depth. One difference can be characterized by saying that in the Investigations Wittgenstein diurnalizes Spengler's vision of the destiny toward exhausted forms, toward nomadism, toward loss of culture, or of home, or community: he depicts our everyday encounters with philosophy, with our ideals, as brushes with skepticism, wherein the ancient task of philosophy, to awaken us, or bring us to our senses, takes the form of returning us to the everyday, the ordinary, every day, diurnally.

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