Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405159289)

New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell

Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning,
Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary
on the Philosophical Investigations
Part I: Essays
G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker
Second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker

Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning,
Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary
on the Philosophical Investigations
Part II: Exegesis 1-184
G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker
Second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker

Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity,
Volume 2 of An Analytical Commentary
on the Philosophical Investigations
Essays and Exegesis of 185-242
G. P. Baker and P. M. S. Hacker
Second, extensively revised edition by P. M. S. Hacker

Immediately upon its posthumous publication in 1953, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations was hailed as a masterpiece, and the ensuing years have confirmed this initial assessment. Today it is widely acknowledged to be the single most important philosophical work of the twentieth century.

In this definitive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein experts Peter Hacker and Joachim Schulte have incorporated significant editorial changes to earlier editions of Philosophical Investigations in order to reflect more closely Wittgenstein's original intentions. Notable revisions include the placement of Wittgenstein's notes - Randbemerkungen - into their designated positions in the text, some corrections to the originally published German text, and the numbering of all the remarks in what was called Part 2 and is now named Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment. Extensive modifications and corrections have also been made to G. E. M. Anscombe's original English translation. Detailed editorial endnotes have been added to illuminate difficult translation decisions and to identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein's original text.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN-10: 1405159286
ISBN-13: 9781405159289
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 6

About the Author
Peter Hacker is the author of the four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell, 1980-96) the first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker (Second Editions, 2003, 2009) and of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 1996). He has also written extensively on philosophy of mind, including Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), co-authored with M. R. Bennett, and Human Nature: The Categorial Framework (Blackwell, 2007), the first volume of a trilogy on human nature.

Joachim Schulte edited the authoritative critical-genetic edition of Wittgenstein's Philosophische Untersuchungen (2001). He is author of Wittgenstein: An Introduction (1989), Chor und Gesetz: Wittgenstein im Kontext (1990), Experience and Expression: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology (1993), and of many dozens of philosophical papers.