Rather than promote some new interpretation of Wittgenstein's philosophy, they aim to illuminate the circumstances of the life out of which it was created. Giving concrete form to abstract philosophical ideas is no easy task, and the curators of the exhibition dealt with this in several ways. The exhibition also presents a portrait of Marguerite Respinger, a young Swiss woman with whom Wittgenstein had a relationship, though his plan to marry her did not come to fruition. The exhibition in Berlin does not address this claim, which has no firm corroboration, but spotlights Wittgenstein's relationships with four men, all much younger than he, who are known to have been his consorts: the philosopher and mathematician Frank Ramsey (who translated Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus from German to English and pressed Wittgenstein to return to Cambridge ) Francis Skinner (with whom Wittgenstein studied Russian and planned to move to the Soviet Union, ultimately changing his mind after visiting there ) David Pinsent and Ben Richards, his final companion. Bartley addressed this issue in his 1973 biography of Wittgenstein, in which he maintained that the philosopher used to engage in casual sexual encounters with young men he met in Prater Park in Vienna and in parks in England.
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