It now seems to me preferable to use the non-technical language Wittgenstein himself favoured and to avoid even the slightest suggestion that he is examining a well-defined philosophical position. As I see it, the power and drama of the Investigations resides largely in the way Wittgenstein digs out and comes to terms with philosophical conceptions that grip us, and it subverts what he is attempting to achieve to belittle the diversity of the intuitions he is at pains to combat.
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In the study of German history, there is the notion of sonderweg, literally the “special path,” down which the German people are fated to wander. In different eras, and depending on who employed it, the term could imply different things. It began as a positive myth during the imperial period that some German scholars told themselves about their political system and culture. During and after World War II it turned distinctly negative, a way for outsiders to make sense of the singularity of Germany’s crimes.
