Wittgenstein's Boundaries

JOHN ELLIS REMARKS in Playing Games with that interpretation of Wittgenstein is certainly unique. Though he does not intend this as praise, sounds so much like praise to ears that I wish I could accept imputation. However, truth is that my reading of Wittgenstein is only too indebted to someone else-to Oets Bouwsma, teacher, walking companion of Wittgenstein, Fool of analytic philosophy (in sense of Lear's Fool). Now I ask reader to forgive me as I take a very short detour through intellectual biography, a detour that seems justified to me for two reasons. First, because Ellis believes that it is clear enough what is at the root of alleged misreadings of Wittgenstein: Staten wants to make Wittgenstein seem very much like Derrida. I can think of no better way to show how far this is from truth than by describing how I came about my reading: primarily from Bouwsma's Wittgenstein seminar. Subsequently, when I discovered Derrida, I read him in light of Wittgenstein, and not other way around. My second reason is that, this being case, I can take occasion to acknowledge an intellectual debt and to pay tribute to a remarkable man

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