โ Scribed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Luciano Bazzocchi (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This new edition of Wittgensteinโs book, strictly following the authorโs recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful interpretation of decimal numbers (which alone, according to Wittgenstein, โgive perspicuity and clarity to the bookโ) shows that the Tractatus stems from a home-page containing seven cardinal propositions and develops level by level, by perfectly coherent reading units. Indeed, โthe Tractatus must be read in accordance with the numbering system, and that demands that the reader follow the text after the manner of a logical tree, which is the way in which the book was composed and in which Wittgenstein arranged his philosophical remarksโ (Peter Hacker, The Philosophical Quarterly). Thence, the Tractatus is no longer an obstacle course, where critics and students were strenuously committed to decipher anacolutes, semantic jumps and bizarre combinations. On the contrary, it reveals to be, at long last, a book that every reader, from her own point of view, can enjoy. The actual form of Wittgensteinโs work discloses the harmony and the aesthetic value of a philosophical text that is contemporary and is one of the most amazing masterpieces of world literature.
Contents
Foreword โข Luciano Bazzocchi
Introduction to This Edition โข P. M. S. Hacker
Historical Note โข Luciano Bazzocchi
Introduction โข Bertrand Russell
Preface
Tractatus logico- philosophicus
Notes
Appendix A: Supplements
Appendix B: โShavings and Sawdustโ
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Contains the original German, alongside both the Ogden/Ramsey, and Pears/McGuinness English translations