Abstract

SANFELIX VIDARTE, Vicente. A Sick Soul: Wittgenstein's Religious Experience seen from William James's Varieties of Religious Experience. Diánoia [online]. 2007, vol.52, n.59, pp.67-96. ISSN 0185-2450.

This article maintains that Wittgenstein can be seen as a sick soul in the terms of William James' The Varieties of the Religious Experience. It also holds that from the reading of this book Wittgenstein adopted a religious ideal that explains some aspects of his biography, his hostility to bourgeois civilization and the religious meaning of his philosophy.

Keywords : religion; melancholy; civilization; philosophy.