Goethe, Spengler e a morfologia da linguagem em Wittgenstein

Abstract: This article presents the importance of Goethe's and Spengler's morphology for the development of a morphology of language in Wittgenstein's work, after his return to Cambridge and philosophy in 1929. In fact, according to Norman Malcolm's testimony, present in 'Ludwig Wittgenstein: A memoir', Wittgenstein says, in the course of his lectures about philosophical psychology, which took place between 1946 and 1947, that what his philosophy try to give is the 'morphology of the use of an expression'. The development of a 'morphology of the use of an expression' in Wittgenstein would become the result of the application to the domain of language of the concept of morphology applied by Goethe, in his scientific writings, to the domain of nature and by Oswald Spengler to the field of the universal history, as one sees in the work 'The Decline of the West - Sketch of a Morphology of the History of the World', which constitutes for Wittgenstein one of the sources to access fundamental aspec

Object Details

• Alternative title: Goethe, Spengler and the morphology of language in Wittgenstein
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Portugiesisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia ; 15 (2017) 1 ; 173-186

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Philosophie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Ribeiro, Nuno

Further information

• DOI: 10.31977/grirfi.v15i1.744
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052314304450352691
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:01 AM CEST