Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty - Softcover

Moyal-Sharrock, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230535534 ISBN 13: 9780230535534

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader.

About this title

About the Author:

DANIČLE MOYAL-SHARROCK is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has significantly contributed to highlighting the importance of Wittgenstein's later corpus. She is the editor, with William Brenner, of Reading Wittgenstein's On Certainty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and the editor of The Third Wittgenstein: The Post-Investigations Works (Ashgate, 2004), as well as the translator of a forthcoming French edition of On Certainty.

Review:

'...a valuable contribution to the on-going study of what is, perhaps, one of the less acknowledged of Eittgenstein's achievement - R.B. The Heythrop Journal 49:1

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0230535534
• ISBN 13: 9780230535534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262