Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general reader by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences …

Wittgenstein's poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Ph…

On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for de…

Insight and Illusion: Themes in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein

Since the first publication of Insight and Illusion in l972, a wealth of Wittgenstein's writings have become accessible. Accordingly, in this edition Professor Hacker has rewritten six of his eleven original chapters and revised the others to incorporate the new abundant material. Insight and Illusion now fully clarifies the historical backgrounds of Wittgenstein's highly different masterpieces…

Recollections of Wittgenstein

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0192876287

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xix + 236 pg.; 20 cm.

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The Blue and Brown Books

These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This …

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters. Corespondence with Russell, Keynes, M…

The discovery, in various quarters, of hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the chief of his Cambridge friends has stimulated the editors to produce a fundamentally new volume. Their notes too are based on archival material not previously explored. Wittgenstein's correspondents here are not his disciples but those he recognized as his mentors - Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moor…

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir

Ludwig Wittgenstein remains one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy, yet he shunned publicity and was an extremely private man. His friend Norman Malcolm (himself an eminent philosopher) wrote this remarkably vivid personal memoir of Wittgenstein--first published in 1958 to wide acclaim for its moving and truthful portrait of the gifted yet difficult man. And, although mu…

On Certainty

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0-06-131686-5

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vii + 90 pgs.; 20,5 cm.

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Wittgenstein and The Philosophical Investigation

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0415111900

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xii + 216 pg.; 27,5 cm.

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Wittgenstein A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921)

With a deft command of all the sources, including some only recently made available, Brian McGuinness traces the early career of Wittgenstein from his privileged childhood in Austria to the appearance of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only major work Wittgenstein published in his lifetime.