Title: Wittgenstein, Understanding and Meaning: An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, volume 1
Publisher: University of Chicago
Publication Date: 1980
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226035263
ISBN 13: 9780226035260
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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This is a much revised and extended new edition of "Part I" of the first volume of the monumental four-volume "Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations."Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was writtenFollowing Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many essays completely"Part I: Essays" now includes two completely new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician'; the essays: 'The Augustinian Conception of Language', 'The Language-Game Method', 'Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles', 'Philosophy', 'Surveyability and Surveyable Representations', and 'Truth and the General Propositional Form' are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a centuryThe accompanying "Part II: 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 "Philosophical Investigations" 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

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