Some remarks on language and its ‘objective’ background

Abstract

In this article, the author attempts to combine two theoretical perspectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and Marxist analysis and critique of modernity (Karl Marx, Slavoj Žižek, Marshall Berman). In the first two chapters, the author analyzes two metaphors, of the “city” and of the “maze,” present in Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical investigations.” The remaining paragraphs relate to the connections between the categories of “language,” “capital,” “development” and “progress.”