Preliminary studies for the "Philosophical Investigations" generally known as the Blue and Brown books / by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

By:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2008, c1969.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 192 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

063111890X
9780631146605 (pbk.)
0631146601 (pbk.)

Other title:

Blue and Brown books

Subject(s):

Semantics (Philosophy)

DDC classification:

Contents:

Includes index.

Summary: "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 Wittgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934; the 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Wittgenstein's later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Wittgenstein'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."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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"Note on the Second Impression ... there are a few alterations [which] make no difference to the sense, being mostly improvements in punctuation or grammar ... The text of the Second edition remains unaltered, but an index has been added."--t.p. verso.

Previous ed. 1958.

Includes index.

"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 Wittgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934; the 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Wittgenstein's later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Wittgenstein'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."-- Publisher's description.