Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations

Author: Marie McGinn

Publisher: ‎ Routledge

Edition: 1st edition ()

Publication Date: 1997-04-02

Language: English

Paperback: 240 pages

ISBN-10: 0415111900

ISBN-13: 9780415111904

Book Description

Wittgenstein is the most influential twentieth century philosopher in the English-speaking world. In the Philosophical Investigations, his most important work, he introduces the famous 'private language argument' which changed the whole philosophical view of language. Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations introduces and assesses:
* Wittgenstein's life, and its connection with his thought
* the text of the Philosophical Investigations
* the importance of Wittgenstein's work to contemporary philosophy.

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