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WITTGENSTEIN: UNDERSTANDING AND MEANING
VOLUME 1 OF AN ANALYTICAL COMMENTARY ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, PART II: EXEGESIS 1-184 |
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Gordon P. Baker, P. M. S. Hacker |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1405199253 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781405199254 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
20 November, 2009 |
| Edition: |
2nd Edition |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
New edition of Part II of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical InvestigationsTakes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was writtenFollowing Baker s death in 2002, P.M.S. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a much revised and extended new edition of Part II of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was writtenFollowing Baker s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many sections of exegesis completelyPart II: Exegesis 1-184 has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein s Nachlass, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the Philosophical Investigations and an overview of its structureThe accompanying Part I: Essays now includes two completely new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician'; the essays: The Augustinian Conception of Language , The Language-Game Method , Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles , Philosophy , Surveyability and Surveyable Representations , and Truth and the General Propositional Form are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a centuryThe revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein s masterpiece for the foreseeable future |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |