The Italian contribution to the debate about the "two Wittgensteins"
The author examines the widespread picture of the two Wittgensteins (Trасtatus logico-philosophicus - Philosophical investigations). The article focuses the position of two Italian researchers: Marino Rosso and Diego Marconi. According to the author, these two researchers believe that the picture of the two Wittgensteins is too simplified (despite the fact that Wittgenstein himself, in the preface to the Philosophical investigations, provides a dual picture of himself). The author remarks that, according to Rosso's point of view, the object of criticism of Philosophical investigations is not only the Tractatus but the Philosophical remarks too (written over the beginnings of the 30s). According to the author, one of the most striking examples in the Investigations of the reaction to the doctrines of the Remarks is the private language argument. The author underlines those contents which were selected by Marconi as recurrent over the whole background of all Wittgenstein's works. The author concludes saying that the picture of the two Wittgensteins, according to Marconi and Rosso, is to be rejected: the thought of Wittgenstein was in a state of constant and paradoxical development.