Introduction

The words ‘text’ and ‘context’ in the subtitle of this volume indicate themes that serve to unite the essays found here. The authors of the essays are of one mind with respect to the proper approach to interpreting the masterpiece of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy: prior to pronouncements on the tenability or philosophical relevance of remarks in the Philosophical Investigations, one must always carefully consider Wittgenstein’s text itself, and one must locate puzzling passages in their (immediate or original) contexts in order to understand and appreciate them.