Wittgenstein's Lectures: Cambridge: 1930-1932, From the Notes of John King and Desmond Lee - Hardcover

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847662012 ISBN 13: 9780847662012

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 1980

Synopsis

Wittgenstein wrote copiously after his return to Cambridge & arranged much of his writing into an array of incomplete manuscripts. Some 30,000 pages existed at the time of his death. Much, but by no means all, of this has been sorted & released in several volumes.[The Manuscripts, from the Wittgenstein Archive in Cambridge] During his "middle work" in the '20s & '30s, much of it involved attacks from various angles on the sort of philosophical perfectionism embodied in the Tractatus. Of this, he published only the paper, "Remarks on Logical Form," which was submitted to the Aristotelian Society & published in their proceedings. By the time of the conference, however, he'd repudiated the essay as worthless & gave a talk on the concept of infinity instead. He was increasingly frustrated to find that, altho he wasn't ready to publish his work, other philosophers were publishing essays containing inaccurate presentations of his own views based on their conversations with him. As a result, he published a very brief letter to the journal Mind, taking a recent article by R.B. Braithwaite as a case in point, & asked philosophers to hold off writing about his views until he was himself ready to publish them. Altho unpublished, the Blue Book, a set of notes dictated to his class at Cambridge in 1933–34, contains seeds of his later thoughts on language (later developed in the Investigations). It's read today as a turning point in his philosophy of language.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0847662012
• ISBN 13: 9780847662012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 124
• Editor: Desmond Lee