Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

by Grayling, A. C.

• ISBN13: 9780192854117
• ISBN10: 0192854119
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains thenature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.

Author Biography

A.C. Grayling is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, and Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, The Refutation of Scepticism, and Berkeley: The Central Arguments, and is also the editor of Philosophy: A Guide through the Subject and Philosophy 2: Further through the Subject.

Table of Contents

Note on references	xii
List of illustrations	xiii
Life and character	1	(15)
The early philosophy	16	(57)
The later philosophy	73	(53)
Wittgenstein and recent philosophy	126	(9)
Further reading	135	(4)
Index	139