Wittgenstein biography pdf free download

Welcome to The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project, a multilingual website that aims to make Wittgenstein's published writings available free of charge and with a free licence.

Wittgenstein's writings are in the public domain in those countries where rights expire 70 years or fewer after the death of the author: this includes most of the European Union, Africa, Asia and Oceania, most Latin American Countries and Canada.

The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project provides complete, well-formatted, downloadable, free books: the German or English originals are available as well as translations in multiple languages, some of which were purpose-made by our team.

Skjolden, Norway.

Wittgenstein stayed in Skjolden many times between 1913 and 1950. Photo by Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY.

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