Where did Gramsci live when he was in Vienna?

When I was in Vienna in August of 2026 I wanted to visit places where Gramsci had lived while he was in Vienna (between December 1923 and May 1924). I didn't manage to work out where Gramsci had lived while I was there but since then I have been reading A Great & Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 - and that book contains information about the places Gramsci lived while he was in Vienna. According to a footnote, "Initially Gramsci lodged in Schönbrunner Street, then on the south-west outskirts of Vienna with Joseph Frey, the general secretary of the Austrian Communist Party". The letters themselves contain more precise details.

The address that Gramsci lived at on Schönbrunner Straße was:

Schönbrunner straße 236, apartment 7, right hand staircase, c/o Dr Joseph Frey.

and after that Gramsci lived at 

Floriangasse, 5A, Door 20, 3rd Floor

- at least that is what his letter to Julia Schucht (his wife) says on 6th March 1924. However, further research suggests that there is no such street as Floriangasse - and so presumably Gramsci lived on Florianigasse (with an 'i' between Florian and gasse)- behind the Rathaus. In another letter to his wife, Julia Schucht, he gives the address as: Floriangasse, 5 - Door 20 - III Floor Vienna/VIII Austria.

 

I spoke at the recent International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg about similarities between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Antonio Gramsci with respect to science and scientism. My conference paper is available here. A longer version of this paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Anthropos

 

The article 'On Prejudice', in which I discuss Endre Begby's recent book: Prejudice - a study in non-ideal epistemology - is available here

 The article 'Wittgenstein, Religion and Deep Epistemic Injustice' is available here

Mikel Burley reviews Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Mikel Burley has reviewed Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion for the journal Religious Studies. You can find his review here

 

Reading Group - Reading José Medina's The Epistemology of Protest

 I am currently coordinating a reading group which is discussing José Medina's recent book The Epistemology of Protest. Details of forthcoming sessions can be found here

 

Review of Jennifer Lackey's book Criminal Testimonial Injustice

Robert Vinten's review of Criminal Testimonial Injustice by Jennifer Lackey has been published in the journal Manuscrito. The review is available here

 

Knowledge, Confidence, and Epistemic Injustice

Robert Vinten's paper 'Knowledge, Confidence, and Epistemic Injustice' was published in the journal Symposion (Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2024). It is available to read here

 

Wittgenstein, Justice, and Liberalism

 Robert Vinten's article 'Wittgenstein, Justice, and Liberalism' has been republished in the book Essays on Values: Vol. 1, (J. Constâncio and M. J. M. Branco (eds.)) and is available here

 

Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

A sample of Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind is available here. A paperback version of the book is due to be released in January 2025.

 

 A symposium discussing Robert Vinten's book Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences (Anthem Press, 2020) has been published in the journal Cosmos + Taxis. The symposium was edited by Richard Eldridge and contains contributions from Paul Roth, Daniel Little, Rupert Read, Rafael Azize, and Richard Raatzsch - as well as a response from Robert Vinten. There are some great discussions of Wittgenstein's relevance to the social sciences as well as his relevance to social and political philosophy. Rafael Azize compares Wittgenstein's philosophy to art and Richard Raatzsch compares Wittgenstein to Brecht. All of the papers can be found, Open Access, here

 

'Wittgenstein, Quasi-Fideism, and Scepticism', in Topoi, 2022

                                        Link to 'Wittgenstein, Quasi-Fideism, and Scepticism
 

Hayek, Scepticism, and Democracy: A Wittgensteinian Critique

'Hayek, Scepticism, and Democracy: A Wittgensteinian Critique' can be found here

Vol. 5: Issue 2, Dewey Studies.

Wittgenstein, Guilt and Western Buddhism

Article 'Wittgenstein, Guilt and Western Buddhism' in the journal Contemporary Buddhism is available here

 

Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein’s Tractatus a Modernist Work?

 

'Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein’s Tractatus a Modernist Work?' - in Philosophical Investigations journal, 2021

The article can be found here on the journal's website

Marx and Wittgenstein on Religion

Chapter by Robert Vinten - 'Marx and Wittgenstein on Religion' in the book Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein (edited by Fabio Sulpizio, Gabriele Schimmenti, and Moira De Iaco, Peter Lang, 2021)

Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein available here

Review of Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein

Review of Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel H. Weiss (eds) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein - in Religious Studies, 2021. Click here to see the review

 

 Robert Vinten's book Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences: Action, Ideology, and Justice is now available in hardback, paperback, and as an e-book.

 

"Robert Vinten has produced an impressively meticulous and wide-ranging discussion of how Wittgenstein's mature philosophy can revitalize the social sciences. There is insight and scholarship on every page. This important book will open up new possibilities for both philosophers and social scientists" - Leonidas Tsilipakos, Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK.

Link to Anthem Press page here

Article - ¿Era Wittgenstein un filósofo liberal? - in Análisis: Revista Colombiana de humanidades

Link to article - click here - ¿Era Wittgenstein un filósofo liberal?

Review of Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell by Toril Moi

http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3460