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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Wittgenstein by David G. Stern , Brian Rogers , Gabriel Citron
This edition of G. E. Moores notes taken at Wittgensteins seminal Cambridge lectures in the early 1930s provides for the first time an almost verbatim record of those classes. The presentation of the notes is both accessible and faithful to their original manuscripts and a comprehensive introduction and synoptic table of contents provide the reader with essential contextual information and summaries of the topics in each lecture. The lectures form an excellent introduction to Wittgensteins middleperiod thought covering a broad range of philosophical topics ranging from core questions in the philosophy of language mind logic and mathematics to illuminating discussions of subjects on which Wittgenstein says very little elsewhere including ethics religion aesthetics psychoanalysis and anthropology. The volume also includes a 1932 essay by Moore critiquing Wittgensteins conception of grammar together with Wittgensteins response. A companion website offers access to images of the entire set of source manuscripts.