WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG. - [THE LATER WITTGENSTEIN - A MAIN WORK OF 20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY] Philosophische Untersuchungen/ Philosophical Investigations. Translated by E.M. Anscombe. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1953. 8vo. Orig. full blue cloth w. gilt lettering on back, orig. dust-jacket. D-j. w. some brownspotting and faded spine, but almost fully intact w. only one small nick to back hinge at lower capital, no other nicks or tears, not price-clipped. Book-block and cloth-bdg. very nice and clean. X, [+Xe], 232, [+232e] pp. ¶ First edition. With German-English parallel-text. An absolute main work of 20th century philosophy. This groundbreaking work, in which the essence of the "later Wittgenstein" is captured, is the most studied of Wittgenstein's works. The work was published posthumously, as all but one of W.'s books were, two years after W.'s death, though he planned for it to appear earlier. It has had an immense impact on the philosophy of language and mind, and has irreversibly changed the way philosophy is done today.
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