Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Book Overview

Zettel is a collection of fragments which Wittgenstein cut from various of his typescripts and preserved for future use. More than half of the fragments were written in the years 1946-1948, after the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520252446
• ISBN13: 9780520252448
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Consumate questions -- the edge of meaning

Keeping in mind that the early Wittgenstein intended to express everything clearly that could be said, though the most important things could not be said, they could only be shown, this book is a marvelous collection of just the sort of questions I suppose led him to change his mind. Each is thoughtful and leads no where -- which is precisely the point.

Buy This Book First

Before you buy one of the books on Wittgenstein's thought about philosophical psychology, buy the Philosophical Investigations and Zettel. Most of the notes in these other "books" are alternate workings of thoughts already expressed in better form in the Investigations and this volume.