The Whistler

I'm reading a good little book on LW (or, as I like to call him, The Whistler) by A. C. Grayling. It's apparent that Wittgenstein, who never read much philosophy, was a philistine intent on marching along his own philistine road that he believed would solve every philosophical question ever invented, but all his language games are quite silly. He appeals to teenagers and those with a sort of arrested philosophical development because he appears to be such an outsider (well, he was an outsider) and radical, but I prefer those thinkers who work from a deep understanding of the tradition to those (like Roberto Calasso) who just want to trash it.