Un alma enferma: La experiencia religiosa de Wittgenstein a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James Translated title: A Sick Soul: Wittgenstein's Religious Experience seen from William James's Varieties of Religious Experience

Abstract

Este artículo defiende que Wittgenstein puede ser considerado como un alma enferma a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James. Asimismo, se muestra que de la lectura de este libro Wittgenstein extrajo un ideal religioso que explica varios aspectos de su biografía, su hostilidad a la civilización burguesa y el sentido religioso de su filosofía.

Translated abstract

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.