Re-imagining Wittgenstein’s Hut at Skjolden
Mark Rikey,
Thinking Place,
Sept 03, 2021
Wittgenstein resonates with me. So when I encountered the phrase "Walk criss-cross over the landscape" attributed to him in a Twitter tagline I felt compelled to go looking for it. It's a paraphrase, as it turns out, but the search unearthed this gem, a description of a trek to find Wittgenstein's hut in the Norwegian wilderness, and an attempt to unravel aspects of his thinking in the process. They both speak to me. From the Investigations: "The best that I could write would never be more than philosophical remarks; my thoughts soon grew feeble if I tried to force them along a single track against their natural inclination. And this was of course connected with the very nature of the investigation. For it compels us to travel criss-cross in every direction over a wide field of thought. The philosophical remarks in this (newsletter) are, as it were, a number of sketches of landscapes which were made in these long meandering journeys."
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