Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and work are both surrounded by controversy. In this welcome reissue of his classic biographical study, complete with a brand-new Preface, Brian McGuinness traces the early years of this fascinating figure and examines the formative influences which shaped his extraordinary life.

Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921

Biographies & Memoirs

McGuinness, Brian

Professionals & Academics

Clarendon Press

Approaches to Wittgenstein

Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy, and aesthetic attitudes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

Traces the early years of the philosopher, detailing the roles that his troubled family, his imposing and wealthy father, turn-of-the-century Viennese intellectuals, and his World War I experiences played in the formation of his philosophy

Wittgenstein: A Life: 1889-1921

Historical

University of California Press

With a deft command of all the sources, including some only recently made available, Brian McGuinness traces the early career of Wittgenstein from his privileged childhood in Austria to the appearance of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only major work Wittgenstein published in his lifetime.

Wittgenstein: A life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921.

University of California

This book has two aims. First it seeks to identify the principal lines of interpretation of Wittgenstein's philosophy (Logical Atomism, Neopositivism, the work of Ayer, the analytic philosophy of the post war period and the new tendencies of the last decade). These interpretations, often surprisingly different, are described in the first part of the book. It presents an historiographical panorama while also serving as a necessary guide for anyone who comes to the study of Wittgenstein for the first time. It provides the criteria by which the reader may orient himself supported by the 2000 titles examined in chronological order in the second part. The bibliography is not a simple listing of author and title. In many cases brief critical notes are appended to author and title details, especially where the item is of considerable influence. Lists of reviews from a wide range of periodicals are attached to all books mentioned. The aims of "Wittgenstein - A Bibliographic Guide" is to give a picture of the philosophical debates that have surrounded Wittgenstein's work. The result demonstrates how profound his influence has been on 20th century thought and culture and allows a clearer grasp of the more fugitive and controversial aspects of his thought.

Wittgenstein: A Bibliographical Guide

Frongia, Guido

Blackwell Pub.

Wittgenstein: A Life : Young Ludwig, 1889-1921

Ronald P Frye & Co

Philosophische Untersuchungen / Logische-philosophische Abhandlung. Kritsch-genetische Edition / Kritische Edition.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Schulte, Joachim

Nyman, Heikki

Savigny, Elke von

Wright, Henrik von

Suhrkamp

Ludwig Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis. Gespräche, aufgezeichnet von Friedrich Waismann

Waismann, Friedrich

Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung. Tractatus logico-philosophicus.

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