Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Great Minds) - Softcover

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041585475X ISBN 13: 9780415854757

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, composed in a series of remarkable numbered propositions, was the only book he published in his lifetime. He tackles nothing less than the question of whether there is such a thing as a logically perfect language and, armed with it, what we can say about the nature of the world itself. Pushing the limits of language, logic and philosophy, the Tractatus is a brilliant, cryptic and hypnotic tour de force, exerting a major impact on twentieth-century philosophy and stirring the imagination today.

With a new foreword by Ray Monk.

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About the Author:

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was arguably the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. He was born in Vienna, but studied and practiced philosophy in Great Britain. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947. He worked in and transformed the fields of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 041585475X
• ISBN 13: 9780415854757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144