(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein

This text should interest readers interested in issues of interpretation and cultural studies. It tells the story of Wittgenstein interpretation during the 20th century, providing different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the (socio-cultural rather than psychological) motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. As a cultural history of ideas, it traces the parallelism between Wittgenstein interpretation and the move from metaphysics, to language, to postmodernism.