Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir
Narrated Mystery Series
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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Ep. 1 The World Is Everything, That Is The Case – Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir
This opening episode includes the book's introduction, epigraph and preface, as well as the first chapter of the purported Wittgenstein hardboiled noir detective story, 'Dear Old Blood', which the academic Herbert Denk claims to have discovered. It finishes with a series of end notes including:the title 'Dear Old Blood'the detective's name, Nixthe reference to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicusthe similarities between philosophy and detectionAll copyright: Neil Fitzgerald Contact the author for rights, etc: neilsfitzgerald@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
