Introduction to Wittgensteins Tractatus - Softcover

Anscombe, Gertrude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812210190 ISBN 13: 9780812210194

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971

Synopsis

This exposition of the "Tractatus" serves as an introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy as a whole--a philosophy that, says H. J. Paton in the Foreword, sprang from the modern development of mathematical logic. The powerful influence of Schopenhauer, Frege, and Bertrand Russell is evident in Wittgenstein's theme of the connection between language, or thought, and reality.

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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 One of his literary executors, she played a large part in editing his unpublished works and was their principal English translator.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: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0812210190
• ISBN 13: 9780812210194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180