ABSTRACT
THE essays in this volume are all new. Contributors were selected with a view to providing a fairly representative range of Wittgenstein’s philosophical interests but, once selected, they were left entirely free to write on what most interested them. There is, therefore, no claim to any systematic ‘covering of the ground’ and, inevitably, some of Wittgenstein’s most central preoccupations are independently discussed by various individual contributors. This, I think, is in the spirit of Wittgenstein’s method, particularly in his later works, of passing over the same point again and again from different directions, thus building up a picture of its complex relations to other points of philosophical interest.
