ABSTRACT
Wittgenstein’s project remains constant: to diagnose and remedy a sickness of language. The distortion of communication implied by this sickness is not a purely technical problem. It cannot be resolved by technical means (even though the early Wittgenstein offers a technique for overcoming distortion, he emphasizes how little is thereby achieved). Indeed, the sickness is largely caused by the adoption of technique and technical languages as a means of mastering the world. In a rationalized, disenchanted epoch, where everything is possible, language is reduced to a technical instrument. Precision is gained at the cost of the potential for dialogue and challenge.
