Ludwig Wittgenstein

El Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus es el título de una obra de Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein. Resultado de sus notas y de correspondencia mantenida con Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore y Keynes, escritas entre 1914—1916, mientras servía como teniente del ejército austro-húngaro y, posteriormente, como prisionero de guerra en Italia, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. El texto evolucionó como una continuación, y una reacción a las concepciones...

'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' may be the most important book of philosophy written during the twentieth century. Wittgenstein's writing style is clear, succinct, and accessible. Bertrand Russell claimed that, "I cannot see any point on which it is wrong. But to have constructed a theory of logic which is not at any point obviously wrong is to have achieved a work of extraordinary difficulty and importance." Required reading for anyone interested...

Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts. -So it is not a textbook. -Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it. The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is mis-understood. The whole sense...

"Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein's searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation. During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize...

The volume is full of thought-provoking insight which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement.