Philosophical Investigations, Hardcover (4th Ed.)

Contributor(s):

• Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Editor: P. M. S. Hacker
• Editor: Joachim Schulte

Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's PhilosophicalInvestigations is the definitive en face German-Englishversion of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy

• The extensively revised English translation incorporates manyhundreds of changes to Anscombe's original translation
• Footnoted remarks in the earlier editions have now beenrelocated in the text
• What was previously referred to as 'Part 2' is nowrepublished as Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment, and all the remarks in it are numbered for ease of reference
• New detailed editorial endnotes explain decisions oftranslators and identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein'soriginal text
• Now features new essays on the history of the PhilosophicalInvestigations, and the problems of translatingWittgenstein's text

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