Mysticism and writing in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Authors

  • Laura Adriana Hernández Martínez UAM Iztapalapa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v13i28.599

Abstract

This essay considers Wittgenstein's philosophical writing as a mystic writing, heir to the German philosophical mysticism that begins with Jakob Böhme and further developed by the German baroque mystics, notably Angelus Silesius, who Wittgenstein read on the Austrian war front in the First World War. This influence is clear in the aphoristic expression of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with which Wittgenstein recovers the synthetic and paradoxical poetics of Angelus Silesius epigrams, through the exposition of the linguistic logical analysis which distinguishes between what can be said, and what only can be shown in language.

Keywords: Wittgenstein, Silesius, Mystics, Philosophical Writing, Trascendence

Author Biography

Laura Adriana Hernández Martínez, UAM Iztapalapa

Estudió la licenciatura en Filología hispánica en La Universidad Central de las Villas de Santa Clara, Cuba, y el doctorado en la misma especialidad en El Colegio de México. En el año 2000, obtuvo el grado de Doctora en Humanidades con la tesis: “Ética y poética. El lugar de la metáfora en la filosofía del lenguaje de Ludwig Wittgenstein” en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, institución donde es profesora-investigadora de tiempo completo desde 1990. Algunas de sus publicaciones más recientes son: “Biografía y memoria familiar”, Secuencia (núm. 100, enero-abril 2018, pp. 158-178); “Una peregrinación filosófica a un espacio para pensar. La cabaña de Wittgenstein en Skjolden, Noruega”, Carolina Depetris (ed.), Arte, ciencia y palabra. Escritos sobre viajes y viajeros, (CEPHCIS / UNAM, en prensa).

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Published

2021-06-04

How to Cite

Hernández Martínez, L. A. (2021). Mysticism and writing in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Valenciana, 13(28), 309–324. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v13i28.599

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No. 28 (2021): Valenciana 28 julio-diciembre 2021

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