Culture and value are the essential concerns of these remarks, hitherto available only in German as "Vermischte Bemerkungen." Although the passages date from various periods of Wittgenstein's life, over half were written during his later years, and this edition adds material probably written in 1944. The German text is presented alongside the ...
"Although the final remarks in this volume were written less than a fortnight before Wittgenstein's death, the work as a whole has all the forcefulness, originality and richness that characterise his greatest works. The remarks in this volume do not merely repeat points made elsewhere, nor do they merely supplement works already published. The ...
In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgenstein's writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty), upon colour concepts (in Remarks on Colour) and upon the relation between the "inner" and "outer", that is, between so-called mental states and bodily behavior. His writings on this third theme, now ...
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 ...
Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an idealist (phenomenalist) reduction of matter to mind? These questions overshadow the Western tradition in metaphysics from the ...
This bilingual volume - English and German on facing pages - brings together the writings Wittgenstein composed during his stay in Dublin between October 1948 and March 1949, one of his most fruitful periods. He later drew more than half of his remarks for Part II of "Philosophical Investigations" from this Dublin manuscript. A direct continuation ...
In the Lent term of 1912, Ludwig Wittgenstein registered as an advanced student at Cambridge, where he had first come to attend Bertrand Russell's lectures. It was at one of Russell's weekly "squashes", held in his rooms in college, that Wittgenstein met David Pinsent, a fellow student at Trinity College, whom he was later to call "my first and ...
The author discusses and examines the concept of ethics. The theoretical construction that emerges is in its broad outlines that of Aristotle, with occasional contributions from Plato and Kant.
In an autobiographical introduction, the author tells about the two forces which have shaped his intellectual life: philosophy as an academic profession and philosophy as a search for a view of life. The book accordingly divides into two parts. The essays in the first part survey developments in logic and analytical philosophy in the perspective ...
Twelve years after the publication of volume I, this book represents the final, and fruitful, phase of Wittgenstein's philosophical career, and shows one of the 20th centuries most important, and controversial, thinkers at his clearest and best. In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgenstein's writings focused upon knowledge and ...
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