How do facts become understanding? What makes a given piece of information meaningful? Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) approached the issues of meaning, understanding, and language in a genuinely new way and argued powerfully that we need 'a new way of looking' much more than we need more knowledge. For a generation increasingly fragmented by a glut of unassimilable information and unrelated 'facts' his groundbreaking perspective is a helpful way of getting a better, more human, understanding of ourselves and one another.
About the Author
Henry Le Roy Finch taught philosophy for 20 years at Sarah Lawrence College and for another 20 years at CCNY. He has also taught at Hunter College and the Graduate Center in New York. His publications include numerous articles and two books -- Wittgenstein: The Early Years and Wittgenstein: The Later Years, both published by Humanities Press. He is now engaged in writing and in leading seminars at Columbia University.
