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Wittgenstein Wittgenstein A Short Introduction for Business German Podcast Listeners Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna in 1889, into one of the wealthiest and most culturally influential families of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Trained initially as an engineer, he turned to philosophy and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. His life falls into two clearly distinct phases: the early period, marked by the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) — an attempt to map language and world in strict logical order — and the later period, marked by the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953), in which he abandoned that claim to precision altogether and turned instead to how language is actually used in everyday life....