Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations"

Preliminary Studies for the
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1965
Genre: Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN:
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There could be no better introduction to Wittgenstein's thought than the Blue Book, whose simplicity and forthrightness must make an instant appeal. The progressive complications of the Brown Book make a natural bridge to the still more subtle, but often confusing, exposition of the Investigations.

The Blue and Brown Books

The Blue and Brown Books
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1991-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780631146605
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These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein's later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein's thought and to all those who wish to study at first-hand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.

Last Writings on the Phiosophy of Psychology

Last Writings on the Phiosophy of Psychology
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1991-01-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780631171218
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This first volume of Wittgenstein's Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology was written between October 1948 and March 1949, when the philosopher had moved to Dublin and was having one of his most fruitful working periods. He then finished work which he had begun in 1946 and which in its entirety constitutes the source material for Part II of the "Philosophical Investigations". When, later in 1949, Wittgenstein composed the manuscript for Part II he selected more than half the remarks for it from the Dublin manuscript. Although this material is a direct continuation of the writings which make up the two volumes of the Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology it deserves more than they to be regarded as a "preliminary study" for the second part of Wittgenstein's "chef-d'oeuvre".