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Wittgenstein Plays Snooker

Peter Mullen reproduces part of Wittgenstein’s lost work, Bemerkungen Uber Die Grundsätzlichkeit Des Snooker.

(Editor’s note: In 1948, Ludwig Wittgenstein, aged 59, paid a brief visit to Sheffield, Yorkshire, in order to study Gemeinschaft [community] there. One Saturday afternoon when there was nothing particularly interesting on at the pictures, he went into the snooker hall known as The Crucible, where he became instantly fascinated by the play. Following this visit he went again to Norway, where, putting aside his already well-advanced work on the final version of Philosophical Investigations, he began a lengthy treatise on the art of snooker. This previously unpublished fragment was discovered down the back of a sofa in the tap room of The King’s Arms, Cable Street, Attercliffe, in the summer of 2017.)

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