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Half title + TP + [v] = Contents + [vii] = Dedication page + ix-xi = Editor's Preface + half title + [3]-225 + 1 blank leaf. Octavo. First Edition, Second Issue (Fr/McG: W.s lectures. Cambridge 1932-35, p. 46). Published from sheets printed in the US, making this the "second issue" of this important book. The First UK Edition of Student Notes - Taken at Wittgenstein's Lectures - 1932-1935"Language-games are a clue to the understanding of logic"Unlike Desmond Lee & John King's notes from 1930-1932, Ambrose's collection introduces a Wittgenstein who has decisively turned away from the Tractatus, and is now firmly committed to working out his "New Philosophy".The book contains five sections. It begins with an introduction by Ambrose acknowledging the difficulty of publishing an honest recapitulation of Wittgenstein's lectures from this period. With this in mind, the content of the first chapter - Part I. Philosophy. Lectures 1932-1933 - becomes more lucid. It ranges from oft-returned-to topics such as the translatability of colors and toothaches to intelligible and meaningful speech, to more unconventional topics like the relationship of the body to the ego.In her second chapter - Part II. The Yellow Book (Selected Parts) - Ambrose presents selections from a mysterious supplement to the Blue Book. The Yellow Book never underwent official publication and, even still, remains something of an object of Wittgensteinian lore [see item #41 above]. Published as a supplement to the Blue Book, the Yellow Book was intended to be a further elaboration and explanation of the ideas published there. The selection presented in Part II incorporates Ambrose's notes with those of her peers - Margaret Masterman and Francis Skinner - to provide a still-yet unpublished, but nonetheless important, work of the Wittgenstein canon. Part III is a composite of Ambrose's notes on Wittgenstein's lectures, 1934-35. The lectures begin with a short deliberation on the idea of "negation" in a language-game and the obscurities of facts that are facts but, indeed, that do not exist - an example of which being, "the chair is not green." From this point, these lectures orbit around the principle of negation and negativity, with additional considerations of mathematical propositions that deal with negation.Part IV offers notes on Wittgenstein's 1932-33 lectures on the "Philosophy of Mathematics". This was the first of two iterations of this course, the second being the basis of the Blue Book. Ambrose was one of the five notetakers selected by Wittgenstein in the second iteration of the course, and would go on to be instrumental in publishing the Blue Book. Here, Ambrose presents a framework that anticipates the ideas of the Blue Book, some of which were published there, some of which were not. [See our Catalog 24: Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Man and His Thought for a collection of 81 books and pamphlets by and about Wittgenstein.] Publisher's original photo dust jacket with blue lettering to the front and the spine. The rear panel has a black and white listing of other Wittgenstein books published by Blackwell. Over the publisher's original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. An immaculate copy of the important and popular book of Wittgenstein's early lectures. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
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