THE ESSENTIAL WITTGENSTEIN. Translated And With An Introduction By Robert E. Innis

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. 3 page corner turndowns, otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in vg+ near fine cond. minor rubbing, 1cm tear on top front. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first us edition. first printing (FPuUSA &nap). xxv+182p. A to Z listings. index of citations & references. philosophy. biography. history of science. ~ Perhaps no modern philosopher has exerted a more profound influence on twentieth century thought than Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great Austrian philosopher and mathematician. But up to now his philosophical writings have for the most part been available only in the most fragmentary form, and this has led interpreters to see two distinct and unrelated Wittgensteins: an early positivist and a late mystic. This important new book by a leading German philosopher effectively challenges this common wisdom~and does so through the texts themselves. By organizing Wittgenstein's scattered writings around such core themes as language, certainty, reality, and meaning, he enables us to see for the first time the essential unity of this great thinker's work. He thus provides us with an authoritative context for resolving the apparent paradoxes and ambiguities of a great mind and in so doing succeeds in illuminating some of the deepest questions of modern philosophy.…