Fritz Mauthner

Fritz Mauthner (22 November 1849 – 29 June 1923) was a journalist and philosopher from Horschitz, Bohemia.

He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatts in 1895, but is best known for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache (Contributions to a Critique of Language), published in three parts in 1901 and 1902. Ludwig Wittgenstein took several of his ideas from Mauthner^[1], and acknowledges him in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).^[2]

Mauthner died in Meersburg.

1 Works
2 Notes
3 Further reading

Works

Philosophy

Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, three volumes, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1901–1903.
Aristoteles, 1904
Spinoza, 1906
Die Sprache, 1907
Wörterbuch der Philosophie, 1910-11, 1923-24
Schopenhauer, 1911
Der letzte Tod des Gautama Buddha, 1913
Der Atheismus und seine Geschichte im Abendlande (4 books), 1920-23
Muttersprache und Vaterland, 1920

Fiction

Anna, 1874
Lyrik
Die große Revolution, 1872
Nach berühmten Mustern, satirical, 1878, 1889
Einsame Fahrten, 1879
Vom armen Franischko, story, 1879
Die Sonntage der Baronin, 1881
Der neue Ahasver, 1882
Dilettantenspiegel, satirical, 1883
Gräfin Salamanca, 1884
Xanthippe, 1884
Berlin W. (trilogy of novels): Quartett, 1886; Die Fanfare, 1888; Der Villenhof, 1890
Der letzte Deutsche von Blatna, novel, 1887
Der Pegasus, 1889
Zehn Geschichten, 1891
Glück im Spiel, 1891
Hypatia, 1892
Lügenohr, 1892 (under the title: Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit, 1899)
Kraft, novel 1894
Die Geisterseher, novel 1894
Die bunte Reihe, 1896
Der steinerne Riese, novella, 1896
Die böhmische Handschrift, novella 1897
Der wilde Jockey, 1897
Der letzte Tod des Gautamo Buddha, novel 1913
Der goldene Fiedelbogen, 1917

Essays and theoretical works

Kleiner Krieg, 1879
Credo, 1886
Tote Symbole, 1892
Zum Streit um die Bühne, 1893
Totengespräche, 1906
Gespräche im Himmel und andere Ketzereien, 1914

Translations

Henriette Marechal, by Edmond de Goncourt, 1895

Editorial

Wochenschrift für Kunst und Literatur, 1889-1890
Magazin für die Literatur des In- und Auslandes, 1991
Bibliothek der Philosophen, from 1911

Collected works

Ausgewählte Schriften, 6 books, 1919

Miscellaneous

Erinnerungen, autobiography 1918
Selbstbiographie 1922, in: Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Bd. 3.

Notes

^ Janik, Allan and Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin. Wittgenstein's Vienna. I.R. Dee, 1996 (first published 1973), pp. 119, 121–133.
^ Wittgenstein L., Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, "4.0031 All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense)."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Family	Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein Karl Wittgenstein Paul Wittgenstein Works associated with Paul Wittgenstein

Early work	Picture theory of language Truth tables

Later work	Language-games Private language argument Family resemblance Rule following Forms of life Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics

Publications	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Some Remarks on Logical Form Blue and Brown Books Philosophical Remarks Philosophical Investigations On Certainty Culture and Value Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics Zettel Remarks on Colour Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief

Movements	Analytic philosophy Linguistic turn Ideal language philosophy Logical atomism Logical positivism Ordinary language philosophy Wittgensteinian fideism Quietism

Friends	G.E.M. Anscombe R.B. Braithwaite Rudolf Carnap Paul Engelmann John Maynard Keynes Peter Geach Norman Malcolm G.E. Moore David Pinsent Frank P. Ramsey Rush Rhees Bertrand Russell Moritz Schlick Francis Skinner Piero Sraffa Vienna Circle Friedrich Waismann Peter Winch G.H. von Wright

Biographers	David Edmonds Ray Monk William Warren Bartley

Secondary sources	A.J. Ayer Gordon Baker James F. Conant Cora Diamond Terry Eagleton Peter Hacker Saul Kripke Anthony Kenny Warren Goldfarb Stanley Cavell D.Z. Phillips Colin McGinn Jaakko Hintikka Oswald Hanfling A.C. Grayling Rupert Read Barry Stroud Stephen Toulmin Crispin Wright

Miscellaneous	Cambridge Apostles Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club Haidbauer incident Haus Wittgenstein

Film	Wittgenstein (film)

Philosophy of language

Philosophers	Plato (Cratylus) • Confucius • Xun Zi • Aristotle • Stoics • Pyrrhonists • Scholasticism • Ibn Rushd • Ibn Khaldun • Thomas Hobbes • Gottfried Leibniz • Johann Herder • Wilhelm von Humboldt • Fritz Mauthner • Paul Ricœur • Ferdinand de Saussure • Gottlob Frege • Franz Boas • Paul Tillich • Edward Sapir • Leonard Bloomfield • Zhuangzi • Henri Bergson • Lev Vygotsky • Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) • Bertrand Russell • Rudolf Carnap • Jacques Derrida (Of Grammatology • Limited Inc) • Benjamin Lee Whorf • Gustav Bergmann • J. L. Austin • Noam Chomsky • Hans-Georg Gadamer • Saul Kripke • Alfred Jules Ayer • Donald Davidson • Paul Grice • Gilbert Ryle • P. F. Strawson

Theories	Causal theory of reference • Contrast theory of meaning • Contrastivism • Conventionalism • Cratylism • Deconstruction • Descriptivist theory of names • Direct reference theory • Dramatism • Expressivism • Linguistic determinism • Logical atomism • Logical positivism • Mediated reference theory • Nominalism • Non-cognitivism • Phallogocentrism • Quietism • Relevance theory • Semantic externalism • Semantic holism • Structuralism • Supposition theory • Symbiosism • Theological noncognitivism • Theory of descriptions • Verification theory

Concepts	Ambiguity • Linguistic relativity • Meaning • Language • Truthbearer • Proposition • Use–mention distinction • Concept • Categories • Set • Class • Intension • Logical form • Metalanguage • Mental representation • Principle of compositionality • Property • Sign • Sense and reference • Speech act • Symbol • Entity • Sentence • Statement • more...

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