ABSTRACT
Reading and receiving Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the texts of any thinker, is a complex philosophical problem that disrupts the traditional divide between author and reader and understands both sides of this binary couplet as involved in the creation of meaning. Wittgenstein, like F. Nietzsche, was concerned about who would read and understand him. In particular, he was concerned that he might be misinterpreted, especially by those who were closest to him, by his students and colleagues who professed to know what he was saying. The development and application of critical methodologies to the analysis of reading or of the production of a philosophical reading also requires some thought as a prevalent and dominant academic or pedagogical practice in the humanities. The encounter with Ludwig Wittgenstein in France can be seen in terms of the wider context of a colloquium on analytic philosophy held at Royaumont in 1958.
