Este artículo defiende que Wittgenstein puede ser considerado como un alma enferma a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James. Asimismo, se muestra que de la lectura de este libro Wittgen- stein extrajo un ideal religioso que explica varios aspectos de su biografía, su hostilidad a la civilización burguesa y el sentido religioso de su filosofía. This article maintains that Wittgenstein can be seen as a sick soul in the terms of William James" The Varieties of the Religious Experience. It also holds that from the reading of this book Wittgenstein adopted a religious ideal that explains some aspects of his biography, his hostility to bourgeois civilization and the religious meaning of his philosophy
