Wittgenstein: Understanding And Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part II - Exegesis 1 - 84

Baker, Gordon P. & P. M. S. Hacker

ISBN 10: 140511987X / ISBN 13: 9781405119870

Published by Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Mass., 2005

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Analytical Commentary On The Philosophical Investgations Vol. 1, Part II; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 384 pages. Seller Inventory # 30181

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Title: Wittgenstein: Understanding And Meaning: ...

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Mass.

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: Second Revised Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis:

This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker’s definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.

• Takes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written.
  
• Following Baker’s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised the first volume, rewriting many essays and sections of exegesis completely.
  
• Part One – the Essays – now includes two completely new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician'.
  
• Part Two – Exegesis §§1–184 – has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the book, and an overview of its structure.
  
• The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece for the foreseeable future.

About the Author:

G.P.Baker was a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford from 1967 until his death in 2002. He is the co-author with P.M.S. Hacker of the first two volumes of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980–96), and with Katherine Morris of Descartes’ Dualism (1996). He also wrote numerous articles on Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Waismann and Descartes.

P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, the first two volumes co-authored with G.P. Baker (Blackwell, 1980–96) and of Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, most recently The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), co-authored with M.R. Bennett.