Wittgenstein / Hans Sluga.

Front Matter -- The Situated Thinker -- The World and its Structure -- The Limits of Language -- The Prodigious Diversity of Language Games -- Families and Resemblances -- Our Unsurveyable Grammar -- Visible Rails Invisibly Laid to Infinity -- What is the Use of Studying Philosophy? -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The situated thinker -- The world and its structure -- The limits of language -- The prodigious diversity of language games -- Families and resemblances -- Our unsurveyable grammar -- Visible rails invisibly laid to infinity -- What is the use of studying philosophy?

Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought from his early work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to the posthumous publication of On Certainty, notes written just prior to his death. A substantial scholarly addition to our understanding of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by renowned Wittgenstein scholar, Hans SlugaProposes an original new interpretation of Wittgenstein's workWritten to also be accessible to readers unfamiliar with Wittgenstein's thoughtIncludes discussion of the social and.

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