About the Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was arguably the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. Giovanni da Col is a research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oslo and the founder of HAU Books and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Stephan Palmie is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of many books, including The Cooking of History, published by the University of Chicago Press.