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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Some tanning to pages. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The figure of Ludwig Wittgenstein exerts a very special fascination that is not wholly explained by the enormous influence he has had on the development of philosophy this century. Even those quite unconcerned with analytical philosophy find him compelling. Poems have been written about him paintings inspired by him his work has been set to music and he has been made the central character in a successful novel that is little more than a fictionalized biography (The World as I Found It by Bruce Duffy). In addition there have been at least five television programmes made about him and countless memoirs of him written often by people who knew him only very slightly. (F. R. Leavis for example who met him on perhaps four or five occasions has made his ‘Memories of Wittgenstein’ the subject of a sixteen-page article.) Recollections of Wittgenstein have been pub- lished by the lady who taught him Russian the man who delivered peat to his cottage in Ireland and the man who though he did not know him very well happened to take the last photographs of him. All this is in a way quite separate from the ongoing industry producing commentaries on Wittgenstein’s philosophy. This indus- try too however continues apace. A recent bibliography of second- ary sources lists no fewer than s.868 articles and books about his work. Very few of these would be of interest (or even intelligible) to anyone outside academia and equally few of them would concern them- selves with the aspects of Wittgenstein’s life and personality that have inspired the work mentioned in the previous paragraph. of It seems then that interest in Wittgenstein great though it is. suffers from an unfortunate polarity between those who study his