Journal of the History of Philosophy

Thomas J. Brommage
Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell (review)
Journal of the History of Philosophy - Volume 46, Number 3, July 2008, pp. 493-494

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Project MUSE - Journal of the History of Philosophy - Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell (review) Project MUSE Journals Journal of the History of Philosophy Volume 46, Number 3, July 2008 Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell (review) Journal of the History of Philosophy Volume 46, Number 3, July 2008 E-ISSN: 1538-4586 Print ISSN: 0022-5053 DOI: 10.1353/hph.0.0037 Reviewed by Thomas J. BrommageUniversity of South Florida Gregory Landini. Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell. New York-Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 300. Cloth, $96.00. Although everyone knows that Russell had an immense influence upon Wittgenstein's early philosophy, the degree to which Wittgenstein is either adopting or renouncing Russell's views is still largely a matter of dispute. Recent commentators have been in nearly univocal agreement that the Tractatus should be understood as a rejection of Russell's philosophy, and that Wittgenstein was instead more influenced by the "great works of Frege." In his earlier work, Gregory Landini has proposed a more nuanced way to understand Russell than is commonly assumed. In his new book, Landini directs his attention...