[bmj]

Even after the Tractatus was published, Wittgenstein was still teaching secondary school in Austria (though this was of his own choice). He didn't even take a position at Cambridge until 1929 (eight years after the Tractatus was published).

[brudgers]

At the outbreak of the World War, Wittgenstein left Cambridge to serve as a soldier in the enemy's army. Attitudes were different in the late 1920's than in the immediate wake of the war.