Major Works is the finest single-volume anthology of influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's important writings. Featuring the complete texts of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books: Studies for 'Philosophical Investigations,' and On Certainty, this new collection selects from the early, middle, and later career of this revolutionary thinker, widely recognized as one of the most profound minds of all time.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Austria and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. He volunteered to serve in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, and in 1918 was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy, where he finished his masterpiece, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the most important philosophical works of all time. After the war Wittgenstein eventually returned to Cambridge to teach.
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A fantastic bargain: the best one-volume Wittgenstein ever published in English,
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In brief, this is simply the best single-volume representation of Wittgenstein's work ever compiled in English, and it represents an incredible bargain for students, teachers, and general readers -- perhaps the most philosophy for the buck that one could find outside of a paperback Plato.
The volume is a compilation of Wittgenstein's work, selected in order to give readers an idea of his whole career: the vitally important Tractatus represents his early work, while his "middle" period is represented by the "Blue and Brown Books" (studies for the Philosophical Investigations, which is not included in this volume) and his late work by the posthumously published On Certainty. This is a fairly comprehensive selection: certainly every reader will want to grapple with the Tractatus, and while it would be nice to have the Investigations themselves represented here, the preliminary studies in the Blue and Brown Books deserve equal attention -- these are actually often richer, more full of examples and explorations into the philosophy of language and mind, than the finished product. (Still, if you're supplementing this with another volume, the Investigations would be the obvious choice.) On Certainty is the least important text of the three on its own merits, but this gnomic late work's inclusion here will help readers see Wittgenstein's full intellectual trajectory, the directions his late work moved away from the earlier writings, more clearly. No translators are prominently credited here, sadly, but all these works appear to be given in their original English versions as earlier published by Blackwell. The Tractatus, in particular, is definitely C.K. Ogden's early version rather than the later translation by Pears and McGuinness (both these are widely used; the later version is also cheaply available in Routledge's edition for readers interested in comparing the two).
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