The find of a noir detective story Dear Old Blood by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it's a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who will win this war of authenticity?
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The find of a noir detective story Dear Old Blood by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it's a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who will win this war of authenticity?
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This episode of Horace Murgatroyd's reading and commentaries on the purported Wittgenstein noir 'Dear OId Blood', begins with Herbert Denk's defensive Afterword from the second edition. The first part of Murgatroyd's own critical commentary then follows.
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Figure 1. Wittgenstein's grave.
Footnote: See Richard J Evans's Why are we obsessed with the Nazis? in The Guardian, 6th February 2015
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