Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, German text with translation by D.F.Pears and B.F.McGuiness, London, 1961; Philosophical Investigations, tr. G.E.M.Anscombe, Oxford, 1953; Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, tr. G.E.M.Anscombe, Oxford, 1956.
Commentaries: On atomism and positivism generally see J.O.Urmson, Philosophical Analysis, Oxford, 1956, a lucid but dated book, written from the standpoint of Oxford linguistic philosophy. See also D.F.Pears, Bertrand Russell, London, 1967. On Wittgenstein see Anthony Kenny, Wittgenstein, London, Penguin, 1973, which is perhaps the least misleading among the short commentaries on the later work. Among more advanced commentaries, the following deserve mention: Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Oxford, 1982, and David Pears, The False Prison, 2 vols, Oxford, 1987.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF IDEAS
2 - THE RISE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Part One - Rationalism
3 - DESCARTES
4 - THE CARTESIAN REVOLUTION
5 - SPINOZA
6 - LEIBNIZ
Part Two - Empiricism
7 - LOCKE AND BERKELEY
8 - THE IDEA OF A MORAL SCIENCE
9 - HUME
Part Three - Kant and idealism
10 - KANT I: THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
11 - KANT II: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS
12 - HEGEL
13 - REACTIONS: SCHOPENHAUER, KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE
Part Four - The political transformation
14 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FROM HOBBES TO HEGEL
15 - MARX
16 - UTILITARIANISM AND AFTER
Part Five - Recent Philosophy
17 - FREGE
18 - PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIALISM
19 - WITTGENSTEIN
Bibliography
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