Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes:
- Wittgenstein’s life and the background to the Tractatus
- the ideas and text of the Tractatus
- the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today,
Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
- ISBN10 0415357217
- ISBN13 9780415357210
- Publish Date 17 October 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 408
- Language English