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  title info:
    title: Tractatus in context
    sub title: the essential background for appreciating Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus
  name:
    name part: Klagge, James Carl
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Ludwig Wittgenstein's brief Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, yet it offers little orientation for the reader. The first-time reader is left wondering what it could be about, and the scholar is left with little guidance for interpretation. In Tractatus in Context, James C. Klagge presents the vital background necessary for appreciating Wittgenstein's gnomic masterpiece. Tractatus in Context contains the early reactions to the Tractatus, including the initial reviews written in 1922-1924. And while we can't talk with Wittgenstein, we can do the next best thing, hear what he had to say about the Tractatus. Klagge thus presents what Wittgenstein thought about germane issues leading up to his writing the book, in discussions and correspondence with others about his ideas, and what he had to say about the Tractatus after it was written-in letters, lectures and conversations. It offers, you might say, Wittgenstein's own commentary on the book. It also iIlluminates what is at stake in the Tractatus, by providing the views of others that engaged Wittgenstein as he was writing it. It also includes Wittgenstein's earlier thoughts on ideas in the book as recorded in his notebooks, letters and conversations as well as his later, retrospective comments on those ideas. It draws on new or little-known sources, such as Wittgenstein's coded notebooks, Hermine's notes, Frege's letters, Hänsel's diary, Ramsey's notes and Skinner's dictations and also draws connections between the background context and specific passages in the Tractatus, using a proposition-by-proposition commentary.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Prefatory material -- The initial project -- The world (1-2.063) -- Pictures and representation (2.1-3.13) -- Language and representation (3.14-3.328) -- Propositions (3.33-4.0412) -- Language and applications (4.05-4.26) -- Logic (4.27-5.156) -- Operations and logic (5.2-5352) -- Nonstandard sentences and logical form (5.54-5.5571) -- Subject (5.6-5.642) -- Operations, mathematics, and logic (6-6.241) -- Science (6.3-6.372) -- The war -- Value (6.373-7) -- Wittgenstein looks back on the Tractatus.
  note: James C. Klagge.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [388]-403) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  subject:
    topic: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B3376.W563 T733538 2022
  classification: 192
  identifier: 9780367466336
  identifier: 0367466333
  identifier: 9780367465568
  identifier: 0367465566
  identifier: 9781003030072
  identifier: 9781000455212
  identifier: 9781000455229
  identifier: 2021016740
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210409
    record change date: 20220218201405.6
    record identifier: in00004552489