Out now: "Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy"

Alexander Berg, M.A., Ph.D.

Work Diary (What I actually do)

I’m currently writing (or rather translating) twelve abstracts into German for the Special Issue on Wittgenstein and Hegel on Normativity and Rationality, and after that I’ll move on to the thematic introduction to the issue.

I also remembered that De Gruyter recently mentioned "self-archiving" during the Frege-conference in Jena. I’ll look it up in the next days and check the publishing contract. If it’s permitted, I plan to make some of the texts available here, self-archivingly.

Current Project (What I shoud do)

I am working on the book On the Literary Form of Philosophy – Method and Meaning. Its aim is to systematize and integrate the different methods of literary-philosophical research in order to make them more productive for philosophical inquiry and problem-solving.

The project is grounded in the idea of a “system of literature” that serves as a methodological foundation for a deeper understanding of philosophical writings. In the book, I seek not only to present this literary-philosophical method in theory, but also to demonstrate it through two exemplary works of philosophical literature; that is G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.

Further examples are planned to follow. This book is intended as a habilitation thesis for the University of Zurich.

Next Project (What I do next)

I am very much looking forward to working on the Wittgenstein and Hegel volume for the Cambridge Elements series, because it is truly an excellent series. I especially enjoyed the volumes by Alois Pichler (Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein) and Christian Erbacher (Wittgenstein’s Heirs and Editors). It’s a series that includes titles such as Wittgenstein and Ethics (Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen), Wittgenstein and Aesthetics (Hanne Appelqvist), and Wittgenstein and Russell (Sanford Shieh) —and obviously Wittgenstein and Hegel fits in perfectly among them.

Above all, I’m excited because this volume will give me the opportunity to bring together everything I have learned about Wittgenstein and Hegel over the past years—through five conferences, two anthologies, one monograph, and a series of articles and talks—and to present it again, for myself as well, in a compact yet narratively accessible form.

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