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Norman Malcolm
This memoir of Ludwig Wittgenstein was written by his friend Norman Malcolm in 1958. This edition includes the complete text of the 57 letters which Wittgenstein wrote to Malcolm over…
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Ambrose, Alice and Lazerowtiz, Morris,Morris Lazerowitz
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
F Lapointe,Lapointe
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…
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
Ray Monk
In this biography of Wittgenstein, the author interleaves the philosophical and emotional aspects of his subject’s life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In this definitive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein experts Peter Hacker and Joachim Schulte have incorporated significant editorial changes to earlier editions of Philosophical Investigations in order to reflect…
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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…
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…
Ludwig 1889-1951 Wittgenstein
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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.
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.
Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. In letters written over forty…
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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…
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…
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…
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher)
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
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…
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…
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…
Publications of the series include the official proceedings of the ALWS-conferences and of their special workshops. The series is open also for other high-quality publications, especially on the philosophy of…
Russell Nieli
Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language presents the Tractatus as a work of mystic theology intended to direct the reader to a transcendental plane from which human existence can be…
Ludwig Wittgenstein,C. K Ogden
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…
