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This is the second volume of David Pears’s acclaimed study of Wittgenstein’s philosophy from the Notebooks and the Tractatus to Philosophical Investigations and other later writings. Dealing with writings from 1929 onward, Volume II provides close discussions of those doctrines and ideas that reveal the general overall structure of Wittgenstein’s thought. Designed to fill the gap in the secondary literature between brief introductions and long commentaries, The Fa… More >>
The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy Volume 2
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#1 by C. Gardner on April 17, 2010 - 3:36 pm
Along with Glock’s “Wittgenstein Dictionary”, Pears’ two-volume “False Prison” is the best study available in English on Wittgenstein’s multifaceted philosophy. With painstaking detail, Pears traces the development of W’s early form of atomism in the “Tractatus” through the crucial years of 1929-31 when W was unable to find a satisfactory answer to the problem of the logical syntax of color words (and his friend Sraffa challenged him by flipping him the bird with the question, “What’s the logical meaning of this?”) which led him to rethink his both the form and content of his approach and ended with the “Philosophical Investigations”. Pears’s prose is concise, and he is probably the most thorough expositer of Wittgenstein’s sometimes frustrating quasi-dialogue late style of writing.
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