Introduction to Wittgenstein's "Tractatus" (University Library) - Hardcover

Anscombe, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0090511301 ISBN 13: 9780090511303

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1971

Synopsis

In the timely reprinting of this classic philosophy text, Anscombe's Introduction guides us through the Tractatus and, thereby, Wittgenstein's early philosophy as a whole. She shows in particular how his arguments developed out of the discussions of Russell and Frege. This reprint is of the fourth, corrected edition.

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About the Author:

Anscombe (1919 2001) read classics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of his literary executors, she played a large part in editing his unpublished works and was their principal English translator. In 1946 she returned to Oxford as a University Lecturer in 1951. From 1970 until her retirement in 1986 she held the Chair of Philosophy at Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0090511301
• ISBN 13: 9780090511303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300