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1	Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers more books like this by David Edmonds, John Eidinow add to wishlist On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius more books like this by Ray Monk add to wishlist Born in 1889, Wittgenstein grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Vienna, and here emerged an all-consuming preoccupation with spiritual, ethical and cultural questions. His development as a philosopher began in 1922 when he became a student of Bertrand Russell at Cambridge. The work which he started then culminated in "Tractatus Logico ... see all copies from $3.66! new only from $11.00! \| first editions
3	Blue & Brown Books more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist The co-called Blue and Brown Books, originally dictated to his students in Cambridge in the thirties, and circulated, not without precaution and secrecy, now follow the Investigations and the Remarks on Mathematics, and with this the opening up process is complete see all copies from $2.95! new only from $9.10! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein more books like this by Hans D Sluga, David G Stern (Editor) add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They chart the ... see all copies from $4.90! new only from $6.35! \| first editions \| SVS
5	How to Read Wittgenstein more books like this by Ray Monk add to wishlist This series--a personal master class in reading--presents the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. The volumes present a context and explanation that will facilitate understanding of the text. see all copies from $5.41! new only from $7.53! \| SVS
6	Wittgenstein's Vienna more books like this by Allan Janik, Stephen E Toulmin add to wishlist The life and culture of Hapsburg, Vienna before World War I--the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.73! \| first editions \| SVS
7	World as I Found It more books like this by Bruce Duffy add to wishlist Interweaving the lives of Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore, this book focuses on Cambridge before World War I when the three men first meet and sow the seeds of their future relationships. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist This reissue of an American philosophical classic includes a new preface by Cavell, in which he discusses the work's reception and influence. The work fosters a fascinating relationship between philosophy and literature both by augmenting his philosophical discussions with examples from literature and by applying philosophical theories to literary ... see all copies from $14.65! new only from $29.44! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Introducing Wittgenstein more books like this by John Heaton, Judy Groves (Illustrator) add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein has somehow captured the popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the fascinating and attractive master of enigmatic logic. But what did Wittgenstein really say? This book introduces a strange man, the rigorous logician who prized poetry above philosophy, who inherited an immense fortune and gave it all away, who sought ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations more books like this by Marie McGinn, Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist The Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks painlessly introduce students to the classic works of philosophy. Each GuideBook considers a major philosopher and a key area of their philosophy by focusing on an important text - situating the philosopher and the work in an historical context, considering the text in question and assessing the philosopher's ... see all copies from $6.61! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
11 view cover	Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921 more books like this by Brian McGuinness add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and work are both surrounded by controversy. In this welcome reissue of his classic biographical study, ... see all copies from $9.49! new only from $12.43! \| first editions
12 view cover	Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition more books like this by Saul A Kripke add to wishlist In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule. see all copies from $9.16! new only from $21.57! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Ludwig Wittgenstein : a memoir more books like this by Norman Malcolm add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein, who died in Cambridge in 1951, is one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy, yet he shunned publicity and was essentially a private man. His friend Norman Malcolm (himself an eminent philosopher) wrote this remarkably vivid personal memoir of Wittgenstein, which was published in 1958 and was immediately ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $31.69! \| first editions
14 view cover	The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy Volume 2 more books like this by David Pears add to wishlist This is the first of two volumes which describe the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy from the Tracatus to his later writings. Part I of this volume is a survey of the whole of his work. Part II is a detailed examination of the central ideas for his early system. The second volume will cover later philosophy. The book fills a gap in the ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $42.80! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Wittgenstein more books like this by Professor A J Ayer add to wishlist The fame of Ludwig Wittgenstein as one the most important and original philosophers of the century-and also as an intense, magnetic personality-has grown steadily since his death in 1951. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious more books like this by Jacques Bouveresse add to wishlist Through a critical analysis of all Wittgenstein's texts mentioning Freud, Bouveresse points to his complex and sympathetic appreciation of Freud and psychoanalytic culture. Wittgenstein recognized that psychoanalysis does not aim to produce a change limited to intellect, but rather seeks to provoke an authentic change in human attitudes.The beauty ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Wittgenstein more books like this by Anthony John Patrick Kenny add to wishlist This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published. It is widely praised for providing a lucid and historically informed account of Wittgenstein's core philosophical concerns. The book demonstrates the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.76! \| first editions
18 view cover	If Minds Had Toes more books like this by Lucy Eyre add to wishlist Fifteen-year-old Ben Warner is dizzy with boredom working at his local fish and chips shop. One evening, a young woman saunters in and, between mouthfuls of chips, invites him to visit her in the World of Ideas. Ben is excited, but suspicious. The World of Ideas is the philosopher's quarter of the afterlife, and adorable Lila has been residing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Jew of Linz more books like this by Trafalgar Square, Kimberley Cornish add to wishlist Offering the theory that Hitler and Wittgenstein were in the same class at school, this book proposes that the latter was the specific target of Hitler's bile in "Mein Kampf", in which he describes a Jew at school, and that Hitler's beliefs about Jews came from the experience of meeting Wittgenstein at this time. It also argues that Wittgenstein, ... see all copies from $17.88! new only from $22.06! \| first editions
20 view cover	Wittgenstein Reads Weininger more books like this by David G Stern (Editor), Bela Szabados (Editor) add to wishlist Otto Weininger was one of the most controversial and widely read authors of fin-de-siecle Vienna. He was both condemned for his misogyny, self-hatred, anti-semitism and homophobia, as well as praised for his uncompromising and outspoken approach to gender and morality. For Wittgenstein Weininger was a 'remarkable genius'. He repeatedly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
21 view cover	Wittgenstein: Mind and Will, Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations more books like this by Peter Hacker add to wishlist This fourth and final volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers pp. 428-693 of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis. The nine essays cover all the major themes of this concluding part of Wittgenstein's masterpiece: intentionality, inductive reasoning, ... see all copies from $18.49! new only from $33.85! \| SVS
22	Wittgenstein Workbook more books like this by Leeds add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50! first editions
23 view cover	Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes more books like this by Paul Strathern add to wishlist "If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it", Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished". Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else - metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy more books like this by James Carl Klagge (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of new essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy. The first two essays reflect on general problems inherent in philosophical biography itself. The essays that follow draw on recently published letters as well as recently published diaries from the 1930s to explore Wittgenstein's background as ... see all copies from $2.16! new only from $2.16! \| first editions
25 view cover	Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy more books like this by David Francis Pears add to wishlist Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy is a concise and readable study of five intertwined themes at the heart of Wittgenstein's thought, written by one of his most eminent interpreters. David Pears offers penetrating investigations and lucid explications of some of the most influential and yet puzzling writings of twentieth-century ... see all copies from $12.57! new only from $18.73!

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