L’alienazione linguistica. Rossi Landi lettore di Wittgenstein

This paper describes Rossi Landi’s Marxian use of Wittgenstein’s philosophy focusing on the question of linguistic alienation with the goal to distinguish the frame of philosophy of praxis in which linguistic alienation was inscribed by Rossi Landi and the Marxist tradition from Wittgenstein’s theoretical point of view. It will be argued how Rossi Landi’s work and his reading of Wittgenstein allow to understand that Wittgenstein’s philosophy provides conceptual tools useful to understand facts and historical processing of life, but it remains separated from the reality because it did not analyse the concrete situations of life. Wittgenstein restricts yourself to look through philosophical linguistic alienation in order to reveal the false thought of metaphysical philosopher. There is no real social dimension in his invite for philosophers to coming back to the ordinary language uses. By showing similarities and differences between Rossi Landi’s Marxian analysis and Wittgenstein’s thinking, it will emerge a complementary way to look at both Wittgenstein’s and Marx’s thoughts.