God in Berlin, Newton in Brussels: On the power of linguistic images in the Eurozone crisis

摘要

The limits of our language are the limits of our world, famously observed the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. For him, word and fact are in a representational relationship: a word is only an image of a fact, but we are only able to think this image and not the fact behind it. This is the archetypical source of failing communication.