Notebooks 1914-1916

Fülszöveg

' V, J •
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"Wittgenstein's Notebooks are not Philosophy
casual jottings by the great man, but careful and to a great extent continuous workings out of the ideas that were to receive their definitive form in the classic Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Notebooks are of the highest intrinsic interest and the most valuable materials there are for studying the author's . / published writings."—Alan Donagan, University of Chicago
This considerably revised second edi- ^
tion of Wittgenstein's 1914-16 note- / ^, '
books contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E. D. Klemke. Corrections have been made ;
throughout the text, and notes have been added, making this the definitive edition v ^
of the notebooks. The writings inter- , " , . _.
sperse Wittgenstein's technical logical ; "
notations with his thoughts on the mean- ^ '^ i» 1
ing of life, happiness, and death. ^ #
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Fülszöveg

' V, J •
¦' ? -v"
"Wittgenstein's Notebooks are not Philosophy
casual jottings by the great man, but careful and to a great extent continuous workings out of the ideas that were to receive their definitive form in the classic Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Notebooks are of the highest intrinsic interest and the most valuable materials there are for studying the author's . / published writings."—Alan Donagan, University of Chicago
This considerably revised second edi- ^
tion of Wittgenstein's 1914-16 note- / ^, '
books contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E. D. Klemke. Corrections have been made ;
throughout the text, and notes have been added, making this the definitive edition v ^
of the notebooks. The writings inter- , " , . _.
sperse Wittgenstein's technical logical ; "
notations with his thoughts on the mean- ^ '^ i» 1
ing of life, happiness, and death. ^ #
"When the first edition of this collec- n "
tion of remarks appeared in 1961 we . jf
were provided with a glimpse of the . j-
workings of Wittgenstein's mind during - ' 'I -„l-,?-""""'''

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the period when the seminal ideas of the
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus were • ""^i
being worked out. This second edition '¦
provided the occasion to be struck anew *V by the breadth, rigor, and above all the /
restlessness of that mind."—T Michael ' ^
McNulty, S.J., The Modern Schoolman
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Other books by Ludwig Wittgenstein available from the University of Chicago Press: Culture and Value, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, volumes 1 and 2, Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1932, Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1932- / ' 1935, Philosophical Remarks, and ^ i ' - .1 Last Writings, volume 1. ' Vissza