Listen "Schlegel's Philosophy of Life: Lecture 1 (part 1)"
Episode Synopsis
As I've mentioned before in previous episodes, Wittgenstein's thought is often more fruitfully (and intelligibly) understood against the background of German Romanticism than as an anglophone extension of Russell's and Frege's analytic/linguistic/logical turn. To see this more clearly (and beautifully) join me in reading Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel's course of lectures on the Philosophy of Life (Philosophie des Lebens) given in 1827. You can find a German edition of Schlegel's lectures here and the English translation I'm reading from here.