Last Writings, Volume I: Preliminary Studies for Part II of Philosophical Investigations [Paperback]

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author), G. H. von Wright (Editor), Heikki Nyman (Editor), C. J. Luckhardt (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1989

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 of the writing that makes up the two volumes of Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, this collection offers scholars a glimpse of Wittgenstein's preliminary thinking on one of his most important works.

G. H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman both teach at the University of Helsinki.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

This first volume of Wittgenstein's Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology was written between October 1948 and March 1949, when the philosopher had moved to Dublin and was having one of his most fruitful working periods. He then finished work which he had begun in 1946 and which in its entirety constitutes the source material for Part II of the "Philosophical Investigations". When, later in 1949, Wittgenstein composed the manuscript for Part II he selected more than half the remarks for it from the Dublin manuscript.

Although this material is a direct continuation of the writings which make up the two volumes of the Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology it deserves more than they to be regarded as a "preliminary study" for the second part of Wittgenstein's "chef-d'oeuvre". --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (June 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226904466
• ISBN-13: 978-0226904467
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
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