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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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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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…
Wurtenberger Matthias
Philosophen ist es seit jeher vor allem an einem gelegen: das Erreichen von Wahrheit(en). Der Untersuchungsgegenstand mit dem sich Philosophen beschaftigen kann dabei variieren; von der Welt, uber den Geist…
Silva Alves Mauricio
O presente trabalho tem como objeto de analise o itinerario filosofico de Ludwig Wittgenstein, mais especificamente a construcao de uma conviccao filosofica que se desprende do Tractatus Logico Philosophicus centralizada…
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…
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…
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…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein had an enormous influence on twentieth-century philosophy. Many of his ideas have survived in the dictations and the notes taken by his students, from 1932 to 1935…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime.
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 -…
Marco Antonio Camacho Crisp N
He aqui el epitafio de Wittgenstein: No pida yo nunca estar libre de peligros, sino denuedo para afrontarlos. No quiera yo que se apaguen mis dolores, sino que sepa dominarlos…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein emphasises both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.
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…
Charles F. Kielkopf
Danny Kramer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 2,0, Universitat Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zweimal in der Geschichte revolutionierte Ludwig Wittgenstein die…
Joseph Agassi
This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein’s philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. Five papers examine different aspects of it: one on the philosophy of young Wittgenstein…