Introduction

The purpose of Post-Analytic Tractatus is to draw attention to the ways of looking at Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which refers to the limits of analytic philosophy, including the incorporation of approaches from Continental European philosophy. Whereas Philosophical Investigations has previously been seen as the point where Wittgenstein leaves a logicist and positivistic position behind in the discussion of language in itself, the Tractatus has been seen as logical positivist, or something comparable, with the addition of some dark mystical comments. Papers by Kremer and Rudd discuss solipsism and the limits of expression. Allen and Stocker refer to the Continental European approach from Kierkegaard to Derrida in the Tractatus, and the recurrence of from the beginnings of philosophy. It is the work of a major mathematical philosopher dealing with the values of life, the purpose of art and the nature of mysticism.