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[from 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Ludwig Wittgenstein, in 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy ]

Full Idea

The 'Tractatus' is without doubt one of the masterpieces of anti-philosophy.

Gist of Idea

The 'Tractatus' is a masterpiece of anti-philosophy

Source

comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921]) by Alain Badiou - Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little p.16

Book Reference

Badiou,Alain: 'Theoretical Writings' [Continuum 2006], p.16


A Reaction

French philosophers do love making wicked remarks like that. It seems that analysis is anti-philosophy, or 'little' philosophy in Badiou's parlance.