ABSTRACT

Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes:

  • Wittgenstein’s life and the background to the Tractatus
  • the ideas and text of the Tractatus
  • the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today, 

Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.

chapter |20 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|38 pages

THE NATURE OF THE WORLD

chapter 2|55 pages

THE LEGACY OF FREGE AND RUSSELL

chapter 3|29 pages

THE GENERAL THEORY OF REPRESENTATION

chapter 4|60 pages

SENTENCES AS MODELS

chapter 5|60 pages

LOGIC AND COMPOUND SENTENCES

chapter 6|46 pages

SOLIPSISM, IDEALISM, AND REALISM