Abstract
This article analyses in detail Wittgenstein’s Cambridge period since his return in 1929. The trigger point of Wittgenstein’s return back to Cambridge and to philosophy was his visit of Brower’s lecture on ‘Mathematic, Science, and Language’ in Vienna on March 1928. Dutch physicist, Brouwer influenced not only Wittgenstein’s ability to do philosophy again, but some of his ideas. Namely, for Brouwer, language was a natural development of the social history of the human beings. Analysing the development of Wittgenstein’s ideas on language in his Cambridge period, I mention the influence of N. Bakhtin (professor of philology, with whom W. discussed his works, including Tractatus, Philosophical Investigations, idea of language as an activity, meanings depending on context). In 1929 Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge and I argue that this was the crucial turning-point in his philosophy and revision of some his ideas. Wittgenstein returned from self-isolation in removed villages of Lower Austria to the intellectual academic environment, where he was able to talk about his ideas and heed remarks and comments from other students and professors. This period has become a period of rapid change for Wittgenstein. This article also examines Wittgenstein’s ‘romantic’ enthusiasm for soviet Russia and his disappointment after a trip there. Author suggests that this ‘romantic areal’ was created by Wittgenstein’s predilection for Russian poetry and literature of the nineteenth century, i.e., Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin.
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