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The first complete and up-to-date listing of the Wittgenstein literature ever produced. Its more than 3000 entries include material on all phases of the philosopher’s life and thought. Coverage is…
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These essays, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy: Wittgenstein and feminist theory. The volume contains an introductory…
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G. H. von Wright,Friedrich Waismann
This collection contains hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the most important of his Cambridge friends and includes editorial notes based on archival material not previously explored. * Incorporates…
Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen sind mit ihrem philosophiekritischen Feuer, ihrer aphoristischen Brillanz, ihren griffigen Bildern, ihrer argumentativen Verbissenheit zum mehrdeutig verwendbaren Kultbuch geworden, das unterschiedliche Bekenntnisse zu Aufgabe und rechtem Stil…
Ambrose, Alice and Lazerowtiz, Morris,Morris Lazerowtiz
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ray Monk
In this biography of Wittgenstein, the author interleaves the philosophical and emotional aspects of his subject’s life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher)
Published originally in 1921 this book is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. This discussion on philosophical thought can be summed up in this…
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus may be the most important book of philosophy written during the twentieth century. Wittgenstein’s writing style is clear, succinct, and accessible. Bertrand Russell claimed that I cannot see…
Voici, en reedition, les Dictees a Waismann et pour Schlick, soit la transcription vers 1931 par Waismann de reflexions de Wittgenstein dans sa periode charniere. Ils formaient alors un trio…
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s influential Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus explores the assumption that it is philosophy’s task to ‘sanitize’ language. Therefore, it is necessary for philosophy to develop an artificial language that avoids the…
Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern…
For Wittgenstein, philosophy was an on-going activity. Only in his dialog with the philosophical community and in his private moments does Wittgenstein’s philosophical practice fully come to light.
Michael O'Sullivan
In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out a startlingly fresh conception of philosophy itself. Wittgenstein begins from the…
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Susan Byrne
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is regarded as one of the most influential and eminent philosophers of the twentieth century. In both his early and later work, he is a key figure…
Philip R. Shields
Demonstrates that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language. This text also shows that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is…
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein’s later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only work he published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragagraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it immediately convinced most of its readers and captured the imagination…
Reprints not only the original translation from German, but also Bertrand Russell’s introduction and the index, which was first added in a 1955 edition. Austro-British philosopher Wittgenstein (1889-1951) created a…
Notes from Wittgenstein’s small-group, philosophical lectures on aestheticsThis book is based on a series of lectures on aesthetics that Ludwig Wittgenstein, an influential Austrian-British philosopher, gave at the University of…
Wittgenstein wrote the Philosophical Grammar during the years 1931 to 1934 – the period just before he began to dictate the Blue Book. Although it is close to the Investigations…
Ludwig Wittgenstein,Peter Docherty
Offers unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations . This title contains: The Blue Book - A set of notes dictated to Witgenstein’s Cambridge students and The Brown Book - A draft…
When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein’s research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work…
From his return to Cambridge in 1929 to his death in 1951, Wittgenstein influenced philosophy almost exclusively through teaching and discussion. These lecture notes indicate what he considered to be…
This volume initiates an inquiry into the relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s analytic stance towards philosophy and the inherently apophatic nature of his epistemology, a subject that has been repeatedly hinted…
Stephen Loxton
This book offers an introduction to the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Wittgenstein’s life, in its earlier and later phases, is considered in chapters that interleave the reviews of the…
Armin Thommes
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Mainz, 1992, under the title: Die Kohearenztheorie der Wahrheit und der Kunst im Speatwerk von Ludwig Wittgenstein.
T. De Mauro
Various students of general linguistics and semantics quote and discuss Wittgenstein, among others, OGDEN and RICHARDS (1960), ULLMANN (1951, 1962), PAGLIARO (1952, 1957), WELLS (1960), REGNELL (1960) and 1 ZIFF…
Brian McGuinness (University of Siena; formerly Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford)
Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age. This biographical study traces the early years of this person and examines the…
Argues that Wittgenstein’s later philosophy offers a revolutionary conception of language, and hence a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.
The book displays a considerable wealth and variety of Wittgenstein’s fundamental experiments in philosophy across a wide array of subjects that include the mind, pure and applied mathematics, metaphysics, the…
THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher),Bertrand Russell
Bettina Muller
Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Essaysammlung zu Ludwig Wittgenstein und G.E. Moore in deutscher und englischer Sprache. Hierbei wird insbesondere auf die Philosophischen Untersuchungen Bezug genommen, dazu gehoeren auch UEberlegungen…
Andreas Roser
Ironische Verfremdung, Uberschreibung, Manipulation, Variation: Mit diesen Instrumenten der Interpretation werden die -Philosophischen Untersuchungen- Ludwig Wittgensteins analysiert. Ziel der Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, dass (fast) alle Argumente Wittgensteins -…
Marek Dobrzeniecki
The book offers a modernist reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus and comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an…
Jaakko Hintikka
Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was trying to get clear about. For one…
Der spate Wittgenstein hat vom Wort Freiheit sehr selten Gebrauch gemacht, und die Mehrzahl der wenigen Stellen, in denen das Wort im Nachlass vorkommt, fallt groesstenteils auf die Zeit vor…
This second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein emphasises both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.
Charles F. Kielkopf
Norbert Michel
Wahrend Ludwig Wittgenstein in der philosophischen Diskussion zunehmend Interesse findet, ist die systematisch-padagogische Bedeutung insbesondere seiner Fruhphilosophie bisher nicht beachtet worden: Wittgenstein gilt weithin als Sprachphilosoph, nicht aber als Ethiker…
Jacques Lemaire-Charpentier
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienne, Autriche, ne en 1889) interroge sans relache l'utilisation que nous faisons du langage. Son usage ordinaire, philosophique, mais aussi dans les mathematiques est examine sous un angle…
Paul Galbreath
This book, which developed from an understanding of the dialectical relationship between theology and the church, provides information about the function and domain of language in the church through an…
William J. DeAngelis
Focuses on the connection between Wittgenstein and Oswald Spengler and the influence of Spengler’s Decline of the West . This book details how Spengler’s dark conception of an ongoing cultural…
