The Blue and Brown Books

Preliminary Studies for the 'Philosophical Investigation'
1. Auflage 1974
ISBN: 978-0-631-14660-5
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 271 g

These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The ‘Blue Book’ is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein’s Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the ‘Brown Book’ was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein’s later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein’s thought and to all those who wish to study at first-hand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Docherty, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

The Blue Book

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 - 1951 - was an Austrian-British philosopher who taught at the University of Cambridge and is known as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. He worked in the areas of logic and the philosophy of mathematics, the mind and language. The majority of his writing was published after his death