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Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.

ISSN 2240-9599

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«Aesthetically, the miracle is that the world exists»

Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience. February 13, 2026 Luca Zanetti

This paper offers an interpretation of the reflections Wittgenstein wrote up to 1930 on aesthetics and the experience of wonder at the existence of the world. I argue that, for the early Wittgenstein, the fundamental source of aesthetic experience lies in a sense of wonder at the inexplicable existence of the world. Drawing on his scattered remarks on this issue, I reconstruct a sketch of a...