Preface This present volume contains primarily the invited papers of the 28th Inter- national Wittgenstein Symposium that was held in Kirchberg am Wech- sel (Lower Austria) in August 2005. It was dedicated to the topic Time and History (Zeit und Geschichte) in an interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from the philosophy of time, in the narrower sense, the approaches of the single scientific disciplines, in so far as they are informed by foundational and philosophical issues, to culture and art. As usual, the contributed papers (Beiträge) were already published prior to the symposium.1 While the lat- ter volume contains, in a special section, papers dedicated to all aspects of Wittgenstein’s work, the present volume focuses on his views about time. The editors are well aware that both time and history are prominently dis- cussed within the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions in phi- losophy. This was well reflected in the contributed papers, as