Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein, ISBN-13: 978-1839982095

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein, ISBN-13: 978-1839982095

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• Publisher: ‎ Anthem Press (May 11, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• 250 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1839982098
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1839982095

This new edition of Wittgenstein’s book, strictly following the author’s 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, “give perspicuity and clarity to the book”) shows that the Tractatus stems from a home-page containing seven cardinal propositions and develops level by level, by perfectly coherent reading units. Indeed, “the 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 remarks” (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 Wittgenstein’s 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.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Luciano Bazzocchi ix
Introduction to This Edition by P. M. S. Hacker 1
Historical Note by Luciano Bazzocchi 25
Introduction by Bertrand Russell 39
Preface 54
Tractatus logico-philosophicus 56
Notes 251
Appendix A: Supplements 253
Appendix B: ‘Shavings and Sawdust’ 263

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Austria and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. He volunteered to serve in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, and in 1918 was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy, where he finished his masterpiece, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the most important philosophical works of all time. After the war Wittgenstein eventually returned to Cambridge to teach.

Luciano Bazzocchi, philosopher and AI expert, has benefited from his interdisciplinary skill to outline a new insight on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.

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