Ludwig Wittgenstein from HarperCollins Publishers
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher, mathematician, and author of On Certainty and The Blue and Brown Books. [... more]
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Excellent but flawed look at our greatest psychologist: Ludwig Wittgenstein by Edward Kanterian Reaktion Press (2007) Suppose Einstein was a suicidal homosexual recluse with a difficult personality who published only one early version of his ideas that [... more]
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John Eidinow
John Eidinow is an award-winning journalist with the BBC. He's the bestselling authors of Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Wittgenstein's Poker. [... more]
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Janna Levin
Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna's intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein's dominant philosophy. Alan Turing's mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though ... [... more]
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David Edmonds
David Edmonds is an award-winning journalists with the BBC. He's the bestselling authors of Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Wittgenstein's Poker. [... more]
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Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View
A solid look into Wittgenstein's Religious Attitude: Wittgenstein is primarily known for his work on philosophy of logic, language and mind, but he was a cult figure at Cambridge when he taught there in the first half of the 20th century. Part of this, I [... more]
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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, ...
Living our skepticism: The entirety of Cavell's work arranges itself around _The Claim of Reason_, a 564pp book that was extraordinarily long in its gestation (over two decades), as it grew out of his thesis on Wittgenstein into a much stranger shape. In [... more]
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Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the ...
A Vast Museum of Strangeness: Sass presents an unorthodox view of the workings of the schizophrenic mind in his comparison of Daniel Schreber and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He explores schizophrenia not as a disease to be treated, but rather as an alternate [... more]
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Early Analytic Philosophy: Ferge, Russell, Wittgenstein
very good compilation - with one reservation: although the articles of this book are definitely of excellent quality, there is little directly on the Tractatus. The only one such is Hylton's short but quality article dealing with how the function- [... more]
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Wittgenstein
Commendable: All in all, this is a clear and concise introduction to the two main phases and connecting strands of Wittgenstein's work. The part dealing with the Investigations, however, is superior to that focusing on the Tractatus. Too much of the [... more]
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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
Very clear: A very clear introduction to Wittgenstein from a skeptical point of view. The book is mostly about Wittgenstein's ideas on language. Overrated: Grayling is on the money with his writings about the early Wittgenstein, but his analysis and [... more]
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Wittgensteins Poker
From Amazon.co.uk: Wittgenstein's Poker is a mini biography of the lives of Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein leading up to their one and only meeting at the Cambridge moral science club in October 1946 where their loud and aggressive confrontation [... more]
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