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Derek Jarman: Wittgenstein (1993)

SYNOPSE The young Ludwig Wittgenstein, announcing himself as "a prodigy", introduces us to his Viennese family, describes the rigours of his Austrian education, and debates philosophical questions with a Martian. His intellectual talents take him initially to England where, at Manchester University, he studies Engineering. He quickly transfers to Philosophy at Cambridge, where he is befriended and encouraged in his radically original philosophical ideas by Bertrand Russell who, writing to his mistress Lady Ottoline Morrell, proclaims him the most gifted philosopher of his generation. Wittgenstein leaves Cambridge to journey first to Norway where, in seclusion, he begins to write his Notes on Logic, then back to Wittgenstein: What does this mean? Austria, where he informs his family he intends to volunteer for the Lady O. Morrell: It’s a gesture of contempt. army. His sister Hermione regards the decision as stupid; his Wittgenstein: A cyclist did this to me as I was crossing the road. I decided then and there brother Paul is encouraged to join up with him. During World War I, Paul loses an arm and Ludwig begins work on what will become to kill myself. the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Lady O. Morrell: Are you coming to the Palladium with us this evening? Wittgenstein: What’s the logical structure of this gesture? It doesn’t have one! That On returning home, he decides to delay his return to Cambridge by taking up a provincial teaching means that I spent most of my life brooding in a blind alley! post, further angering Hermione who insists that he is wasting his talents. Ludwig experiences the elementary school as deeply frustrating and is forced to leave after being accused of brutality Russell: Isn’t it rather an overreaction to kill yourself because somebody gives you a V- towards his students. sign? Wittgenstein: Philosophy hunts for the essence of meaning. There is no such thing! There His return to Cambridge is facilitated by the offer of a teaching post and a grant arranged by the Professor of Economics John Maynard Keynes. Wittgenstein, however, finds it frustratingly difficult is no such thing! Just the way we do things in everyday life. Things like that. The college to relate his ideas to his students, and seeks solace in daily visits to the local cinema. He is porter does that! accompanied by his friend Johnny, a young philosophy student who is also Maynard Keynes' lover. Lady O. Morrell: So what are you planning to do for the rest of your life? Wittgenstein and Johnny begin a relationship, during which the philosopher attempts to persuade Wittgenstein: I shall start by committing suicide! the student to relinquish his studies in favour of the more 'honest' world of manual labour. Russell Russell: Champagne before you go? and Keynes reprimand him for influencing a young man whose working-class background meant Wittgenstein: You know...I’d love a cup of tea. that his parents underwent great sacrifices to educate their son at Cambridge. Wittgenstein attempts to leave Cambridge to work as a factory labourer in Soviet Russia, but the Soviet authorities offer him instead a choice of two University posts. He returns to Cambridge in 1951 where he is diagnosed as suffering from cancer of the prostate. After a last voyage, this time to Ireland, he POZNÁMKY returns to Cambridge to die, where he is attended at his deathbed by Maynard Keynes and the Martian. Zdroj: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/497140/synopsis.html

SLOVNČEK “I know I am in pain.” “It’s just philosophers who mudded the waters.” “Limits of my language are limits of my world...” “Philosophy is just a byproduct of misunderstanding language.” “There are no genuine philosophical problems.” “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." belief doubt form of life language game logical form/logical structure philosophy as therapy picture of the world tool/instrument

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